Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence — Robotics

Job overview

The Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence role is remote, with hybrid work available for people within commuting distance of the Salem, OR; Pittsburgh, PA; or Fremont, CA offices. The stated annual base salary range is $257,000–$402,000. Agility Robotics develops commercially deployed humanoid robots intended to handle physically demanding and repetitive tasks alongside workers. The director sets AI strategy and leads development of safe, reliable, real-time AI capabilities for humanoid robots. The role guides the AI team, oversees on-robot and cloud systems, and advances model training, simulation-to-real deployment, and fleet learning for commercial use.

What you'll do

• Define AI strategy and roadmap
• lead selection and integration of machine learning models and algorithms
• ensure safety, privacy, and ethical standards
• partner with hardware and robot software leadership
• oversee on-robot and cloud AI systems
• establish MLOps practices
• drive robotics AI research and production deployment
• lead Sim2Real and data flywheel strategies
• hire, mentor, and develop the AI team
• manage team and computing budgets.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior director of artificial intelligence

robotics

remote

hybrid option

humanoid robots

ai strategy

machine learning

real-time ai

mlops

sim2real

salem or

pittsburgh pa

fremont ca

$257,000–$402,000 per year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• 401(k) with 6% company match
• stock options
• company-paid medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
• flexible unlimited PTO and 12 holidays for exempt employees
• paid parental leave
• professional development and tuition reimbursement
• relocation assistance and annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles.

Why this role

Requires an advanced degree and at least eight years of AI/ML experience, including five years in senior leadership or a director role; robotics or autonomous systems deployment experience and expertise in computer vision, reinforcement learning, and large language models are required.

About the employer

Agility Robotics is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.