Lead the strategy and execution of the robotics foundation model team, ensuring reliable and scalable AI technology for real-world robots.
About this role
The EVP leads strategy and engineering for production manipulators and automated forklifts, plus new AGF and humanoid-arm systems. The remit spans motion and path planning, perception, integration, and cloud frontend and backend applications.
This executive owns requirements, architecture, team, roadmap, budget, suppliers and delivery. Technical scope covers PCB firmware and PID, sensor I/O, ROS 2 and fleet control, MoveIt 2, localisation, teleoperation, cloud orchestration, CI/CD, and HIL, SIL and field tests.
Candidates must have led multidisciplinary robotics teams, held P&L or budget responsibility, and shipped complex robotics software beyond proof of concept. Required expertise includes ROS 2; manipulator, AMR, AGV or AGF controls; basic AI/CV and real-time Linux; CI/CD; gRPC, WebRTC and RTSP; cloud with TypeScript frontend and C# backend; C++14 or newer and Python; plus functional safety, formal verification and cybersecurity. Excellent English is mandatory.
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