Sr. Manager, Robotics (AI2537)

Description Job Title: Sr. Manager, Robotics Job Location: Bangalore, India (This position requires a full-time, on-site presence in our Bangalore, India Office) Job ID: AI2537 Job Description: Key Responsibilities: • Lead and grow a high-performing robotics perception team responsible for vision-based perception, localization, mapping, and navigation for AMRs, drones, and future robotic platforms. • Build, mentor, and manage a team of robotics engineers, providing coaching, performance feedback, career development, and technical direction. • Recruit and scale a world-class engineering organization, establishing hiring standards and building a strong engineering culture. • Drive execution across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring predictable delivery, technical quality, and alignment with business objectives. • Architect and guide the development of visual odometry, visual-inertial odometry, visual SLAM, sensor fusion, and 3D scene-understanding systems, while empowering senior engineers to own implementation. • Partner closely with AI, silicon, hardware, systems, product, and customer engineering teams to deliver production-ready robotics solutions. • Establish engineering best practices for software architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, release processes, and field validation. • Drive system-level optimization for embedded AI and edge-compute platforms, ensuring production-quality performance and reliability. • Lead technical decision-making, design reviews, architecture reviews, and root-cause investigations for complex customer and field issues. Required Qualifications: • Master’s or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience with 12+ years of experience developing perception, localization, navigation, or autonomy systems for autonomous robotic platforms. • 5+ years leading and managing high-performing software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and organizational growth. • Proven track record of delivering production robotics products through multiple product generations. • Deep expertise in vision-based robotics, including visual odometry, visual-inertial odometry, visual SLAM, multi-view geometry, camera calibration, and sensor fusion. • Experience applying modern deep-learning approaches for perception, including object detection, semantic or instance segmentation, depth estimation, tracking, and scene understanding. • Strong proficiency in C++, Python, and ROS/ROS 2. • Demonstrated ability to drive architecture across large software systems while enabling execution through senior technical leaders. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with experience collaborating across engineering, product, and executive leadership. Preferred Qualifications • Experience building and scaling globally distributed engineering teams. • Experience leading autonomy teams for AMRs, drones, humanoids, or other GPS-denied robotic systems. • Familiarity with transformer architectures, vision-language models, world models, diffusion models, or vision-language-action systems. • Experience with simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or equivalent robotics simulation environments. • Track record of commercial product delivery, patents, publications, or significant open-source contributions. Personal attributes: Can-do attitude. Strong team player. Curious, creative, and good at solving problems. Execution and results oriented. Self-driven, Thinks Big and is highly accountable. Good communication skills.