About the job
You will focus on driving the product vision, ensuring seamless execution across the complex hardware/software divide, and translating market demands into user oriented, executable product roadmaps.
Responsibilities
Own and maintain the perception and navigation software roadmap: scope, sequencing, and feature priorities across detection, tracking, localization, mapping, and obstacle avoidance.
Drive the technical definition of the perception stack, turning sensor inputs into the scene understanding and world state that the autonomy and model layers rely on.
Define evaluation metrics and field-testing regimes for perception and navigation: detection, tracking, localization, and mapping accuracy, latency budgets, and the success and regression criteria that gate releases.
Own the requirements for perception data pipelines including collection, labeling, and the feedback loop from field deployments.
Lead product requirements for safe perception: reason through failure modes, validation coverage, and autonomy risk.
Co-design within the compute envelope: account for edge deployment constraints, latency, and on-robot performance, partnering closely with the sensing and compute team.
Qualifications
Minimum
7+ years of experience in product management
Strong experience in perception and navigation fundamentals: detection, tracking, localization, mapping, and obstacle avoidance
Demonstrated experience defining evaluation metrics, field-testing regimes, and performance tracking for autonomy or perception software
Field deployment experience taking perception or autonomy software from the lab into reliable real-world operation
Practical safety judgment around failure modes, validation coverage, and autonomy risks
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, enabling translation of technical insights into business impact
Preferred
Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles
Experience with perception or autonomy evaluation frameworks and large-scale field-test data analysis
Experience generating or using synthetic and simulation-generated data for perception
Experience with data collection operations (teleoperation fleets, annotation and curation pipelines)
Experience working with customers in light and heavy duty industrial environments
Experience with robotics and functional safety standards (ISO 10218, ISO/TS 15066, ISO 13482, RIA 15.08)