Glidance

Job Summary:
Glidance is creating the future of personal robotics through advanced AI and robotics technology. The Head of Embodied Intelligence will define the architecture and research direction for autonomous wayfinding, build a team, and cultivate a technical culture to realize this vision.
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
Qualifications:
Required:
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, AI, or related field
• Strong experience in embodied AI, robotics AI, multimodal AI, perception systems, agentic systems, or autonomous systems
• Strong understanding of VLMs, multimodal perception, AI agents, planning systems, and contextual reasoning architectures
• Strong software engineering capability with Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch
• Experience leading teams, mentoring engineers or researchers, or driving large technical initiatives
Company:
Glidance develops a self-driving mobility aid for people with sight loss. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Seattle, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.