Robotics Research Engineer – Embodied Intelligence

Glidance is an autonomous technology company focused on robotics and intelligent wayfinding. They are seeking a Robotics Research Engineer to join their Embodied Intelligence team, where the role involves developing advanced perception and learning systems for autonomous navigation.

Responsibilities:

• Develop multimodal perception systems that understand pedestrian environments
• Build agentic systems capable of understanding user intent and environmental context
• Explore memory, planning, reasoning, and long-horizon task execution
• Develop evaluation frameworks and metrics for embodied intelligence
• Build data pipelines supporting closed-loop learning and continuous improvement
• Analyze real-world deployment data and identify opportunities for model improvement
• Prototype rapidly, validate ideas through experimentation, and deploy successful solutions
• Work closely with robotics, firmware, software, cloud, and product teams
• Deploy and iterate on models running on physical robotic systems