Head of Embodied Intelligence

Glidance is an autonomous technology company building the future of robotics and intelligent wayfinding to serve real human needs. They are seeking an exceptional AI leader to define the architecture and research direction behind autonomous wayfinding while building a skilled team and technical culture.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive Glidance’s long-term embodied AI strategy
• Build a frontier lab culture focused on rapid experimentation and real-world validation
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a world-class AI and embodied intelligence team
• Architect multimodal systems integrating perception, reasoning, planning, memory, action, and learning
• Advance state-of-the-art perception systems for complex, dynamic human environments
• Work with VLMs, multimodal foundation models, perception systems, and agentic architectures
• Develop systems capable of long-term contextual understanding and adaptive behavior
• Build infrastructure for training, evaluation, deployment, and closed-loop learning
• Work with data generated from deployed Glide systems operating in real human environments
• Collaborate closely with robotics, software, firmware, cloud, and product teams
• Deploy and iterate on models running on real robotic systems used daily by blind and low-vision users