Senior Product Manager, Perception & World Understanding Skills
Senior Product Manager owning the roadmap for the Digit humanoid robot's perception and world-understanding capabilities. A highly technical PM role translating customer needs into requirements for perception, ML, and learned behaviors, defining performance metrics and driving capabilities from prototype to production with robotics, ML, autonomy, and simulation teams.
- Compensation
- $155K–$242K / yr
- Location
- Hybrid- Fremont, CA
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of Product Management or equivalent product leadership experience in robotics, autonomous systems, AI/ML, computer vision, or another deeply technical product environment
- Strong understanding of machine learning, perception, robotics, autonomous systems, or related technical domains
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with highly technical engineering and research teams
- Experience translating ambiguous customer or product problems into measurable technical capability requirements
- Strong understanding of the distinction between technology performance and production product readiness
- Experience defining metrics, benchmarks, or evaluation frameworks for complex technical products
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and communicate their product implications to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to operate across multiple teams and influence without direct authority
- Strong strategic thinking combined with willingness to engage deeply in product execution
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Current authorization to work in the United States (all roles are U.S.-based)
Nice to have
- Advanced degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
- Experience with computer vision, foundation models, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, learned policies, or multimodal AI systems
- Experience with manipulation or mobile robotics
- Experience taking machine learning or robotics capabilities from research through production deployment
- Experience with simulation, synthetic data, evaluation infrastructure, or large-scale robotics datasets
- Experience building products that must operate reliably under significant real-world variation
- Experience in warehouses, logistics, manufacturing, or other industrial environments
- Experience with humanoid robots or mobile manipulation platforms
Full description
Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.
About Us
Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our humanoid 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 humanoid 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 Role
Agility Robotics is looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead product strategy and development for Digit's perception and learned capabilities.
This is a highly technical product role at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, perception, and real-world autonomous behavior. You will be responsible for defining what Digit must understand about its environment, how world understanding should improve the robot's ability to perform useful work, and how those capabilities are evaluated and matured for production use.
You will partner closely with perception, machine learning, robotics, autonomy, simulation, and software engineering teams while working across the broader Product organisation to translate customer and application needs into scalable robot intelligence capabilities.
The role requires the ability to bridge emerging AI and robotics technologies with real product outcomes. You will help determine which capabilities should be developed, what level of performance is required, how progress should be measured, and when a capability is ready to become part of the production product.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the perception and world understanding capabilities roadmap: Define the product strategy, priorities, and roadmap for perception-enabled and learned robot capabilities required to support Digit's expanding application portfolio.
- Define capability outcomes: Translate customer workflows and application requirements into clear requirements for perception, scene understanding, object understanding, learned behaviors, adaptation, motion planning and other AI-enabled robot capabilities.
- Define product-level metrics and evaluation criteria for perception and learned capabilities, including accuracy, robustness, generalization, latency, failure behavior, and operational performance.