Senior Product Manager, Perception & World Understanding Skills

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Senior Product Manager advancing perception and world understanding for Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoids. Defining AI capability roadmaps, metrics, and production readiness for workplace automation.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead product strategy and development for Digit’s perception and learned capabilities
  • Own the perception and world understanding capabilities roadmap
  • Translate customer workflows and application requirements into requirements for perception, scene understanding, object understanding, learned behaviors, adaptation, motion planning, and AI-enabled robot capabilities
  • Define product-level metrics and evaluation criteria, including accuracy, robustness, generalization, latency, failure behavior, and operational performance
  • Drive capabilities from research or prototype stages through validation, productization, and production deployment
  • Translate product capability needs into requirements for models, datasets, training systems, tooling, and infrastructure
  • Identify when capabilities should evolve from task-specific implementations to reusable models and behaviors
  • Partner with robotics, perception, machine learning, autonomy, simulation, systems engineering, and field teams
  • Establish representative evaluation environments, test scenarios, datasets, and benchmarks
  • Coordinate roadmap dependencies across task skills, robot software, hardware, simulation, infrastructure, customer applications, and deployment systems
  • Shape Agility’s long-term robot intelligence strategy
  • Communicate product priorities, technical trade-offs, capability maturity, and roadmap decisions to engineering leaders, executives, commercial teams, and stakeholders

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 5+ years of Product Management or equivalent product leadership experience in robotics, autonomous systems, AI/ML, computer vision, or another deeply technical product environment
  • Strong understanding of machine learning, perception, robotics, autonomous systems, or related technical domains
  • Ability to work effectively with highly technical engineering and research teams
  • Experience translating ambiguous customer or product problems into measurable technical capability requirements
  • Strong understanding of the distinction between technology performance and production product readiness
  • Experience defining metrics, benchmarks, or evaluation frameworks for complex technical products
  • Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and communicate their product implications to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to operate across multiple teams and influence without direct authority
  • Strong strategic thinking combined with willingness to engage deeply in product execution
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience with computer vision, foundation models, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, learned policies, or multimodal AI systems
  • Experience with manipulation or mobile robotics
  • Experience taking machine learning or robotics capabilities from research through production deployment
  • Experience with simulation, synthetic data, evaluation infrastructure, or large-scale robotics datasets
  • Experience building products that operate reliably under significant real-world variation
  • Experience in warehouses, logistics, manufacturing, or other industrial environments
  • Experience with humanoid robots or mobile manipulation platforms
  • Advanced degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field is preferred

Benefits:

  • 401(k) Plan with a 6% company match
  • Company stock options
  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees
  • Benefits eligibility on the first day of employment
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, for exempt employees
  • 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually, for non-exempt employees
  • Catered lunches four times a week and healthy snacks and refreshments at Salem and Pittsburgh locations
  • Generous paid parental leave programs
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs
  • Relocation assistance for eligible roles
  • Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles