Director of Engineering, Physical AI
Core
Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering organization to own and execute the Physical AI Data Engine platform, solving data bottlenecks for robotics research and real-world deployment.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Physical AI)
Builds
Production-grade data infrastructure, teleoperation systems, ML training pipelines, and model evaluation frameworks for robotics workloads.
Domain
Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Technical vision setting, organizational design, talent strategy, cross-functional alignment, hardware-software system leadership, ML lifecycle ownership, distributed systems architecture, cloud infrastructure management, workflow orchestration
Preferred skills
Teleoperation systems experience, robotic hardware platform expertise, imitation learning, sensor fusion, SLAM, 3D data processing, global data collection scaling
Technologies
Python, C++, TypeScript, Node, AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal, Airflow
Responsibilities
Set technical vision across data collection, teleoperation, and ML pipelines; lead multidisciplinary engineering teams; maintain technical and operational excellence; drive cross-functional alignment on platform architecture; collaborate with researchers and clients on scalable data infrastructure
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical oversight
