Senior Product Manager, Perception & World Understanding Skills

The role

You will lead product strategy and development for Digit's perception and learned capabilities. You will define what the robot must understand about its environment and translate customer needs into scalable robot intelligence capabilities.

What you will do

• Own the perception and world understanding capabilities roadmap
• Translate customer workflows into requirements for AI-enabled robot capabilities
• Establish product-level metrics and evaluation criteria
• Drive capabilities from research or prototype stages to production deployment
• Partner with AI Models & Tools teams to translate needs into requirements for models and datasets
• Identify when capabilities should move toward reusable models and behaviors
• Work with robotics, perception, machine learning, autonomy, simulation, and systems engineering teams
• Partner with field teams to establish evaluation environments and benchmarks
• Coordinate requirements and roadmap dependencies across multiple technical areas
• Communicate product direction and technical trade-offs to stakeholders

Required qualifications

• 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 implications to technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to operate across multiple teams and influence without relying on direct authority
• Strong strategic thinking combined with a willingness to engage deeply in product execution
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• 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
• Advanced degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field

Benefits

• 401(k) Plan with 6% company match
• Company stock options
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible, unlimited PTO for Exempt Employees
• 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown
• 10 vacation days and paid sick leave for Non-Exempt Employees
• Catered lunches four times a week and healthy snacks at Salem and Pittsburgh locations
• Generous paid parental leave programs
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs
• Relocation Assistance
• Annual Discretionary Bonus

Before you apply

• Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States

About the company

Agility Robotics is a pioneer whose humanoid robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. The team engineers robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency designed to work alongside people.