Sr. Manager, Robotics (AI2537)

• *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.