Principal Technical Lead, AI Robotics

We are seeking a senior technical leader to architect and drive the development of our autonomous robotic systems program. You will set the technical direction, own the system architecture, and lead a team of RL engineers, manipulation engineers, perception engineers, and robotics engineers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role , you will write code, review designs, and make consequential technical decisions daily.

• Define and own the system architecture for autonomous robotic platforms: locomotion, manipulation, perception, teleoperation, and whole-body control
• Lead a team of 8-10 engineers across RL, imitation learning, perception, simulation, and hardware
• Set technical direction for sim-to-real transfer, policy architecture, and whole-body control integration
• Drive milestone execution on an aggressive 6-month delivery timeline
• Make build-vs-buy decisions for hardware platforms, simulation tools, and ML frameworks
• Represent the technical program to leadership, mission partners, and external stakeholders
• Personally contribute to the most critical technical challenges

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in robotics, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role
• Deep expertise in at least one of: reinforcement learning, robot manipulation, legged locomotion, or whole-body control
• Track record of shipping robotic systems that operate in the real world
• Strong software engineering skills (Python, C++)
• Experience leading and growing technical teams (5+ engineers)
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with legged or multi-limbed robotic platforms
• Experience with defense or national security applications
• Publications in top robotics or ML venues
• Prior startup or defense technology experience
• Active U.S. TS/SCI security clearance