Lead Data Scientist, Robotics

About the role

Agility Robotics produces Digit, a humanoid robot utilized in factories and warehouses through a Robots-as-a-Service model. This position involves transforming high-volume telemetry and sensor data into actionable insights to improve robot reliability, unit economics, and product strategy.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Develop predictive maintenance models to estimate component lifespan and failure rates for hardware like actuators and compute systems.
• Analyze telemetry and logs to identify performance trends, define key RaaS metrics, and calculate the costs associated with human intervention.
• Create anomaly detection and root-cause analysis tools to assist engineering teams in identifying fleet issues.
• Correlate manufacturing test data with field performance to detect potential defects before deployment.
• Design frameworks for fleet-wide software experimentation and define data instrumentation strategies for future model development.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in data science or statistical modeling, specifically solving complex, real-world problems.
• Expertise in survival analysis, anomaly detection, time-series analysis, or causal inference.
• Proficiency in production-level Python, SQL, and modern data infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical lead or senior individual contributor role, including mentoring staff and aligning cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret large-scale, multi-modal operational data such as sensor streams and event logs.
• Current authorization to work in the United States.

Nice to have

• Background in robotics, autonomous systems, IoT, or manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of fleet operations, subscription unit economics, or SRE-style metrics.
• Experience with manufacturing quality systems, such as yield analytics or end-of-line testing.

Skills & tools

• Python
• SQL
• Predictive maintenance modeling
• Survival analysis
• Time-series analysis
• Anomaly detection
• Causal inference

Practical notes

• Compensation includes 401(k) with 6% match, equity, and 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance starting on day one.
• Benefits include flexible unlimited PTO for exempt employees, 12 company holidays, paid parental leave, and tuition reimbursement.
• Relocation assistance and annual discretionary bonuses are available for eligible roles.
• Applications must be submitted directly through the company careers page; third-party agency referrals are not accepted.