Senior Staff Software Engineer, Calibration

Agility Robotics is a company focused on pioneering automation through humanoid robots that assist in various industries. The Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Calibration will be responsible for designing and implementing calibration systems essential for the production of their robots, ensuring accuracy and repeatability in their operations.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and deliver calibration systems end to end, including algorithms, fixtures, on-fixture software, data pipelines, validation, and operator workflow
• Own calibration across perception sensors (RGB cameras, LiDAR, thermal imagers, and other modalities) and kinematic calibration of the robot, including joint approaches that couple sensor extrinsics with arm and whole-body kinematics
• Establish the data and metrics infrastructure underpinning calibration, including per-unit records, accuracy and drift metrics, traceability, and fleet-level monitoring
• Own the delivery of calibration fixture software, including operator-facing applications on Linux
• Own the delivery of in-field self-check and recalibration capabilities to maintain calibration validity through Digit's service life
• Define the requirements that calibration outputs place on downstream manufacturing processes, including cycle time, repeatability, data capture, and operator workflow
• Coordinate with sensor vendors and contract manufacturers on the deployment of calibration processes at their facilities, including process documentation, operator training, and acceptance criteria
• Identify, hire, mentor, and develop other engineers contributing to calibration work

Requirements:

• 10+ years of practical experience calibrating complex robotic or sensor-rich systems in real production environments
• Track record of designing and delivering calibration systems end to end, including algorithms, fixtures, on-fixture software, validation, and operator workflow
• Deep expertise across multiple sensor modalities (RGB cameras, LiDAR, thermal imagers, IMUs, encoders, etc), with working command of kinematic calibration and the coupling of sensor extrinsics to kinematics
• Demonstrated understanding of what production calibration requires: repeatability, data collection, simplicity, and throughput
• Experience building the data and metrics infrastructure that supports calibration at scale
• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python
• Player-coach orientation: capable of executing the technical work directly, while also identifying and developing the talent that contributes to it
• Effective collaboration across multiple stakeholders, including hardware, controls, perception, sensor vendors, and contract manufacturers
• Hands-on engineering practice, comfortable in the lab and on the production floor
• Owned calibration end to end at an autonomous vehicle company, mobile robotics company (humanoid, quadruped, or other dynamically stable robot), or other hardware organization deploying sensor-rich systems at scale
• Experience with in-field calibration validation and recalibration on deployed fleets
• Background in metrology, optical alignment, or geometric computer vision
• Built the data infrastructure side of production calibration, including traceability databases, per-unit calibration history, and fleet-wide monitoring