Senior Manager, AI Innovation

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🕒 March 6

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $268k - $364k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Agility Robotics

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🔧 Hardware

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

Agility Robotics is a leading manufacturer of mobile manipulation robots, known for their humanoid robot Digit. The company focuses on deploying its robots in commercial settings, such as material handling workflows, to enhance productivity across various industries including third-party logistics, manufacturing, and retail & eCommerce. With their innovative cloud automation solution, Agility Arc, these robots provide game-changing automation solutions. Agility Robotics aims to revolutionize labor by integrating humanoid robots in settings where meaningful work and economic value are crucial.

📋 Description

• Oversee the lifecycle of innovation projects, from initial research and whiteboarding to "proof-of-concept" deployment on humanoid platforms. • Owns the success of the AI Innovation program, holding themselves and the team accountable for quality and delivery. • Drive research into novel AI solutions for complex robotics challenges, such as real-time planning, human-robot interaction, and adaptive motor control. • Accelerate our data flywheel strategy to combine teleoperation, synthetic data, and fleet learning to expand the fleet performance and reliability. • Partner with Hardware and Robot Software teams to ensure that next-generation sensor suites are optimized for future AI architectures. • Champion the existing team's talent and represent their needs to senior leadership. • Manage performance cycles, create individualized development plans, and lead hiring to scale the AI Innovation team. • Foster a safe and collaborative environment within the team, encouraging open dialogue and the freedom to learn from failed experiments.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. • Minimum of 8 years of experience in AI/ML, with at least 3 years in a management role. • Demonstrated experience in developing and deploying real-time AI solutions for robotics, autonomous systems, or other mission-critical applications. • Strong expertise in core AI domains, including computer vision, reinforcement learning, and large language models (LLMs) applied to robotics. • Proven track record of managing scaling high-performance engineering or research teams. • Experience deploying models on resource-constrained edge devices, balancing inference speed, power consumption, and thermal limits.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.