Senior Product Manager (Perception and Navigation)

Join our team as a Senior Product Manager focused on Perception and Navigation. In this role, you will drive the product vision, manage the perception and navigation software roadmap, and ensure alignment with real-world economic value for customers. You will work closely with engineering, industrial design, and user experience teams to conceptualize and implement interactive features. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in perception and navigation fundamentals, autonomous robots or vehicles, and excellent communication skills.

Hearing and speech to communicate

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Responsibilities

• Conduire la vision du produit et assurer l'exécution sans faille à travers la complexité du matériel et des logiciels.
• Posséder et maintenir la feuille de route logicielle de perception et de navigation, y compris la portée, la séquence et les priorités des fonctionnalités.
• Définir et prioriser les cas d'utilisation en fonction de l'impact commercial, de la faisabilité et des besoins des clients.
• Strong experience in perception and navigation fundamentals: detection, tracking, localization, mapping, and obstacle avoidance

Experience with autonomous robots or autonomous vehicles

• You make decisions in uncertainty, prioritizing velocity over perfection
• You prioritize user feedback, promoting and advocating for that voice to internal teams
• Experience generating or using synthetic and simulation-generated data for perception

Requirements

• 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
• 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)
• Experience with data collection operations (teleoperation fleets, annotation and curation pipelines)
• Demonstrated experience defining evaluation metrics, field-testing regimes, and performance tracking for autonomy or perception software
• Experience with perception or autonomy evaluation frameworks and large-scale field-test data analysis
• 7+ years of experience

At least 7 years of experience product management

• Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
• [Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times

Preferred

• Field deployment experience taking perception or autonomy software from the lab into reliable real-world operation

Pay

USD 190,000 - 223,000