Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility : our mission is to make businesses more productive and people's lives more fulfilling.

About Agility Robotics

Agility Robotics is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots designed to operate in real-world environments. Our mission is to build robots that seamlessly integrate into human workflows, solving complex challenges in logistics, manufacturing, and beyond. As we scale, we are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to strengthen our Systems Engineering teamensuring structured, scalable development processes while maintaining the agility and execution speed required in a fast-paced startup environment.

Location

This position is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Regular travel to our Salem headquarters, typically 1 week per month, will be required.

About the Role

As a Senior Systems Engineer at Agility Robotics, you'll drive system-level architecture and integration for our humanoid robot platform. Working within a high-impact Systems Engineering team, you'll take ownership of requirements, interfaces, and cross-functional integrationbringing clarity and structure to complex systems while maintaining speed of execution.

This role is ideal for a hands-on technical contributor who thrives in ambiguity, demonstrates systems thinking, and has a passion for building real systems fast. You'll apply structured engineering methods while maintaining the agility and pragmatism needed to ship products.

What You'll Do

• System Architecture & Integration : Define and document system and subsystem architectures spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software domains. Drive trade studies with focus on simplicity, performance, cost, and execution speed.
• Requirements Engineering : Own system-level requirements through their full lifecyclewriting, decomposing, validating, and driving execution. Maintain rigorous traceability while enabling development velocity.
• Compliance & Functional Safety : Ensure system designs meet industry standards and regulatory requirements. Lead functional safety analysis including hazard analysis, risk assessment, and safety case development. Drive compliance activities for manufacturing, warehousing, and operational environments.
• Interface Management : Develop and maintain Interface Control Documents (ICDs). Anticipate and resolve integration issues early through proactive systems thinking.
• Operational Excellence : Identify and eliminate operational inefficiencies through systematic analysis of field performance data, customer workflows, and deployment scenarios. Implement design improvements that directly enhance system reliability, maintainability, and performance.
• Technical Execution : Participate in design reviews, integration efforts, and root cause analysis. Identify risks, lead trade studies, and influence decisions from a systems perspective.
• Field-Focused Problem Solving : Proactively analyze customer deployment scenarios, field feedback, and operational data to identify and solve system-level issues before they impact production or customers.

Required Qualifications

Experience

Technical Skills

Systems Thinking Requirements

Mindset & Traits

Why Join Agility Robotics?

Benefits

Exempt Employees : Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.

Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment. Agility Robotics does not accept unsolicited referrals from third-party recruiting agencies. We prioritize direct applicants and encourage all qualified candidates to apply directly through our careers page. If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered. To ensure full consideration, please apply directly.