Senior Manager, Perception
Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people’s lives more fulfilling.
About the Job
Agility Robotics is deploying humanoid robots that are solving real-world challenges in logistics and manufacturing. We’re seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead the perception team in the development of object detection and mapping systems.
About the Work
- Provide strategic leadership and vision for the perception team. Work with tech leads and product to create a unified roadmap and release schedule
- Lead development of perception algorithms in areas such as object detection, pose estimation, SLAM and MLOps
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a team of 5+ software engineers
- Drive best practices for development, review, testing, and deployment that will ensure high-quality releases to production
- Grow the team by sourcing, hiring, and onboarding highly talented and passionate engineers
- Collaborate with navigation, manipulation and hardware teams to align perception capabilities with product requirements
About You
- 6+ years of industry experience developing/deploying perception algorithms on mobile robots with at least 2 years of experience managing a team of 5 or more engineers
- Familiarity with deep learning, object detection, pose estimation, MLOps, SLAM with a deep technical background in one or more of these
- Familiarity with common computer vision and machine learning libraries such as (but not limited to) PyTorch, OpenCV, etc.
- Experience growing a team and hiring top talent
- Strong software experience in modern C++ and Python with a history of delivering production quality code that is observable and extensible
- Exposure to standard agile and software development processes (issue tracking tools (Jira), feature branching, version control (Git), continuous integration and deployment)
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience working with various sensing technologies (monocular cameras, stereo cameras, lidar, etc.)
- Experience with GPU Programming (eg. CUDA, OpenGL)
- Publications in your field (CVPR, ICCV, RSS, ICRA preferred)
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 twice 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.
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 discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
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Founded in 2015, Agility Robotics manufactures highly capable legged robots for diverse markets such as last-mile logistics, telepresence, automated inspection, entertainment, and academic research. By supplying legged machines that can go anywher...
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