Head of Embodied Intelligence

Glidance is an autonomous technology company building robotics and intelligent wayfinding systems for people who are blind or have low vision. The Head of Embodied Intelligence will define the company’s embodied AI strategy, architect multimodal and autonomous systems, build the AI team, and deploy learning systems on real-world robotic platforms.

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