Senior Software Engineer - Operating Systems

4w1 month ago

Agility Robotics

Remote · Full-time · $155,000 – $241,000

About this role

Agility Robotics is pioneering a new era of automation with commercially deployed humanoids that work alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers. Our robots tackle physically demanding and repetitive tasks, enabling workers to focus on higher-value work while maintaining industry-leading safety standards.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Robot Platform team, you will own and deliver mission-critical operating system components that form the foundational core of our product. Your day-to-day work involves building and maintaining OS images, bootloaders, kernels, device drivers, and filesystems, as well as implementing service management and secure update mechanisms for robots in the field.

You will join an agile, world-class software team that provides a robust, reliable, and secure software substrate accelerating all robot feature development. Collaboration with manufacturing, test, and robot software engineers is essential to implement the features and interfaces they need to succeed.

This role offers the opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges, from optimizing kernel performance to ensuring secure installation and updating mechanisms on physical systems. You will contribute to the evolution of developer tooling and internal best practices, improving team velocity and software quality.

Requirements

5+ years of professional experience with OS image generation, Linux kernel development, and embedded Linux environments
Strong background in implementing complex features within large-scale software systems, preferably in robotics or autonomous systems
Proficiency in modern Python and systems programming on Linux
Experience with Linux kernel development, bootloaders, device drivers, and service orchestration using systemd and similar service management systems
Ability to take high-level project requirements and translate them into efficient, well-tested code
Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working across cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

Build and maintain operating system images used on robots and edge devices, including bootloader, kernel, device drivers, filesystems, and system libraries
Take ownership of technical projects within the robot platform stack, including service management and orchestration using systemd and k3s
Implement secure local and remote service access mechanisms
Develop robust installation and over-the-air (OTA) software update mechanisms
Create provisioning and commissioning scripts for core device environments
Write clean and maintainable code while contributing to thorough code reviews and automated testing suites
Troubleshoot complex low-level issues across the robot software stack, focusing on OS-level bugs and hardware-software integration challenges
Collaborate with manufacturing, test, and robot software engineers to implement features and interfaces they need

Benefits

Opportunity to work on mission-critical operating system components for commercially deployed humanoid robots
Collaborate with a world-class, agile software team in a pioneering automation company
Tackle complex technical challenges from kernel performance to secure OTA updates
Contribute to developer tooling and internal best practices that shape team velocity and software quality