Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer - Build & Release
$190k - $296k USD
Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.
About The Role
Join the team building a modern Software Delivery System system focused on tooling, automation, reliability, and secure software delivery at scale, powering enterprise-grade, next-generation industrial humanoid robotics.
As a Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer – Build & Release, you will drive systems that accelerate our software development lifecycle across the company. Define how software is built, validated, and delivered across robotics, cloud, firmware, and simulation. Safeguard the reliability, safety, and security of release systems at scale.
You will join a rapidly growing team, equipping robotics, cloud, and test engineering teams with essential tools, systems, and processes to build and deploy robot and edge software efficiently and safely.
This role sits at the intersection of:
- CI/CD and release automation
- Reliability engineering
- Software supply chain security
- Policy-driven delivery systems
Design and operate mechanisms that ensure releases are deterministic, traceable, safe, observable, compliant, and routine—even as engineering velocity and system complexity increase.
Key Responsibilities
- Vision & Ownership
- Design, implement, and advance a modern release engineering system for safe, reliable, low-friction delivery across robots, cloud, and edge.
- Own tools, processes, and standards for secure, observable, high-confidence code-to-production deployment systems.
- Define and drive adoption of versioning, artifact, and promotion standards across the organization.
- Collaboration & Standardization
- Collaborate with Software, Hardware, Quality, Security, and Product teams. Establish scalable release workflows and delivery standards.
- Transform requirements into automated, policy-driven delivery systems that infuse reliability, security, and compliance throughout the SDLC.
- Establish and scale self-service “golden paths” for build, test, and release.
- Execution & System Evolution
- Own and evolve build and release systems (e.g., Bazel, CI/CD pipelines) for performance, scalability, determinism, and artifact integrity.
- Create self-service tooling for release creation, versioning, and deployment orchestration.
- Manage build and release systems as production infrastructure. Establish SLIs/SLOs and maintain strong observability.
- Advance quality, safety, and security with automated testing. Enforce policy-based gates and validate artifacts.
- Technical Leadership (Core Responsibility)
- Act as the technical authority for release engineering, guiding how software is built and delivered across the company
- Drive adoption of standardized release patterns and practices across teams.
- Lead cross-functional design and decision-making.
- Establish and refine release principles and guardrails (determinism, traceability, auditability, safety).
What We’re Aiming For
- A one-touch, self-service CI/CD and release platform that enables safe, reliable, and repeatable delivery of robot, edge, and cloud software at scale.
- A deterministic, traceable, and auditable software delivery system where every build and release is reproducible, policy-driven, and compliant by default.
- A build and test infrastructure that autoscales and matches developer demand, with clearly defined SLOs for performance, reliability, and turnaround time.
- Standardized build, versioning, and artifact management across all teams, supporting diverse targets and environments without fragmentation.
- Integrated, multi-layer validation systems (simulation, HIL, integration, and release gating) that provide high-confidence signals for safe deployment.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software, platform, or release engineering, with demonstrated Staff-level ownership and cross-team impact
- Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD and build/release systems at scale as production infrastructure
- Strong expertise in build systems and artifact management, with experience in Bazel or similar large-scale build systems
- Experience building deterministic, reproducible systems (builds, pipelines, or deployments), including performance and scalability considerations
- Deep experience with end-to-end delivery systems, including release orchestration and failure recovery
- Strong understanding of cloud-native systems, containers, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Terraform or equivalent)
- Experience defining and operating SLIs/SLOs and observability for CI/CD, build, or platform systems
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives, define standards, and drive adoption across robotics, cloud, and platform teams
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or embedded/firmware delivery
- Familiarity with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or simulation-based validation systems
- Experience designing or evolving large-scale build/release architectures (e.g., migrations, system redesigns)
- Experience building policy-driven or compliance-aware delivery systems (e.g., SBOMs, signing, SOC2/ISO environments)
Why This Role?
- Contribute to building and advancing the platform that delivers software to robots and edge systems in real-world environments
- Zero-to-One + Scale: Design and implement new release systems while transforming and standardizing existing CI/CD and build infrastructure
- High-leverage impact: Your work directly enables faster, safer, and more reliable deployment of intelligent robotic systems at scale
- Define standards and drive adoption of delivery systems organization-wide
- Remote-first, high-trust culture: Work with a strong, distributed engineering team focused on building reliable, production-grade systems
This is a fully remote role with the option to work hybrid if a commutable distance from our Salem, OR, Pittsburgh, PA, or Fremont, CA offices.
The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This range may change based on geographical location and may be modified in the future.
Anticipated Base Salary Range
$190,000—$296,000 USD
In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of the following for full-time employees:
- 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
- Equity: Company stock options.
- Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
- Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
- Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Time Off:
- Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
- Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
- On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
- Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
- Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
- Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
- Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
- Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.
All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
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.
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