Head of Embodied Intelligence

Glidance
Seattle, WA
Job Description
Role Overview

We are looking for an exceptional AI leader to help build and lead Glidance’s frontier AI capability. You will help define the architecture, research direction, and long-term vision behind autonomous wayfinding in complex human environments.

What You Will Do

Define and drive Glidance’s long-term embodied AI strategy, build a frontier lab culture, recruit and grow a world-class AI and embodied intelligence team, and architect multimodal systems integrating perception, reasoning, planning, memory, action, and learning.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You are energized by frontier problems, ambiguity, rapid learning, and deploying systems into the real world. You care deeply about building technology that meaningfully improves people’s lives and want to help shape the future of embodied AI.

Requirements

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, AI, or related field
  • Strong experience in embodied AI, robotics AI, multimodal AI, perception systems, agentic systems, or autonomous systems
  • Strong understanding of VLMs, multimodal perception, AI agents, planning systems, and contextual reasoning architectures
  • Strong software engineering capability with Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch
  • Experience leading teams, mentoring engineers or researchers, or driving large technical initiatives
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