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
Agility Robotics builds Digit, a humanoid robot deployed into real warehouses
and factories under a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) model. Every hour Digit
operates generates telemetry, logs, sensor streams, and maintenance events — and
turning that into reliability, unit economics, and product decisions is the job.
As a Senior Staff Data Scientist, you'll define how we use data to build better
robots and make better decisions. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role
where you'll set the technical direction for analytics and modeling while
helping build a truly data-driven engineering organization.
In this newly created role, you'll transform massive volumes of complex robot
data into the insights and models that drive decisions across hardware,
software, manufacturing, and operations. You'll create the foundation for how we
measure success, improve robot performance at scale, and prioritize what to
build next — accelerating how we design, deploy, and continuously improve our
autonomous systems.
About The Work
* Predictive maintenance & hardware reliability. Build models that predict MTBF
and remaining useful life for specific components (actuators, cameras,
compute, power systems). Partner with hardware engineering to model
wear-and-tear under varying duty cycles, payloads, and environmental
conditions, and turn those models into maintenance schedules and design
feedback.
* Fleet performance & RaaS unit economics. Analyze telemetry and logs to find
which software versions, site conditions, or usage patterns correlate with
the highest failure and intervention rates. Work with Product to define the
"golden signals" of a RaaS deployment and stand up the dashboards behind
each. Quantify the cost of human intervention (teleop, on-site support,
manual recovery) and its drivers.
* Root-cause & anomaly detection tooling. Build detection and RCA tooling that
surfaces anomalies in fleet behavior early and helps engineers get from
symptom to cause faster.
* Manufacturing quality & feedback loops. Join end-of-line test data with field
performance to find which manufacturing signals predict early field failures,
and close the loop back to the factory to catch defects before they ship
* Beyond the original charter, you may also help shape:
* Experimentation & fleet A/B — a framework for safely rolling out
software/firmware changes across a physical fleet and measuring impact on
performance, reliability, and intervention cost.
* Data quality & instrumentation strategy — partnering with embedded/software
teams to define what gets logged and at what fidelity, so the data needed
for these models exists in the first place.
* Demand/capacity & deployment economics — models that inform fleet sizing,
spares/inventory, and the economics of new site rollouts.
* Safety statistics.
About You
* 10+ years applying data science / statistical modeling to real-world
problems, with a track record of owning ambiguous, high-impact problems end
to end.
* MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Engineering,
Physics, or a related quantitative field; or equivalent professional
experience. PhD and coursework/experience in reliability engineering,
survival analysis, or applied statistics preferred.
* Prior work in robotics, autonomous systems, hardware, IoT/connected devices,
industrial, or manufacturing settings.
* Deep expertise in some combination of: reliability/survival analysis,
time-series and anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and
causal/observational inference.
* Strong software fundamentals — production-quality Python, comfort in SQL and
modern data stacks.
* 3+ years serving as a technical lead or a senior IC on cross-functional
efforts, with a track record of setting technical direction for a team of
data scientists/analysts, mentoring and growing ICs, and driving alignment
across engineering and business stakeholders without formal authority.
* Fluency partnering cross-functionally with hardware, embedded/software,
manufacturing, and business/finance stakeholders, and translating analysis
into decisions they trust.
* Experience working with large-scale, messy, multi-modal operational data
(sensor/telemetry, logs, event streams) and the judgment to know when the
data can and can't support a conclusion.
* Authorization to work in the USA
Bonus Points
* Familiarity with fleet operations, RaaS/subscription unit economics, or
SRE-style operational metrics.
* Exposure to manufacturing quality systems (end-of-line test, SPC,
yield/defect analytics).
Location
* 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
$218,000—$340,000 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 12 company holidays,
including a winter shutdown.
* Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 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
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harassment.
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