JOB SUMMARYYou 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.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES- 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.
- Define and prioritize use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and customer needs.
- Ensure that product development efforts align with real-world economic value for customers.
- Synthesize insights from user research, customer meetings, usage data, and sales feedback into a strategy that delivers business objectives and customer benefits.
- Work with industrial design, user experience, and engineering teams to conceptualize and implement interactive features.
- Define product features/enhancements and communicate requirements to engineering teams via clearly written requirements documents, diagrams, and concise verbal communication.
- Support product marketing initiatives, partner relationships, and other opportunities to accelerate the adoption of our products.
SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS- 7+ years of experience in
- 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.
- You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection.
- You prioritize user feedback, promoting and advocating for that voice to internal teams.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCEAt least 7 years of experience product management- 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).
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS - [Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
- Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
- Hearing and speech to communicate
The annual salary range is $190,000 - $223,000 base
*This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations.
