Sr. Manager, Robotics (AI2537)

SiMa.ai; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SiMa.ai, Inc. in Bangalore, India is seeking a Sr. Manager, Robotics to lead a high‑performance perception team developing vision‑based systems for AMRs and drones.

This on‑site role requires deep expertise in VO, SLAM, sensor fusion, and modern deep‑learning perception approaches. You will recruit, mentor, and scale the engineering group, set hiring standards, collaborate with AI, hardware, and product teams, and drive architecture, CI/CD, and field validation to deliver production‑grade

Qualifications

• 12+ years building perception/localization/navigation or autonomy for autonomous robotic platforms.
• 5+ years leading software engineering teams with hiring and mentorship.
• Proven track record delivering production robotics products across generations.
• Deep expertise in VO, VIO, SLAM, camera calibration, and sensor fusion.
• Experience applying deep learning for perception: detection, segmentation, depth, tracking.
• Proficiency in C++, Python, and ROS/ROS 2.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across engineering, product, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing robotics perception team for AMRs, drones, and future platforms.
• Recruit and scale an engineering organization with hiring standards and culture.
• Drive concurrent programs with predictable delivery and quality.
• Architect and guide VO, VIO, SLAM, sensor fusion, and 3D scene-understanding systems.
• Partner with AI, silicon, hardware, systems, product, and customer teams to deliver solutions.
• Establish best practices for software architecture, testing, CI/CD, release, and field validation.
• Drive system-level optimization for embedded AI and edge compute.

Skills

Vision-based robotics

Visual odometry

Visual-inertial odometry

Visual SLAM

Sensor fusion

C++

Python

ROS/ROS 2

Architecture leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Master’s or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Equivalent practical experience with 12+ years in perception/localization/navigation/autonomy for autonomous robots

Tools

Gazebo

Isaac Sim

Job description

Job Title: Sr. Manager, Robotics

Job Location: Bangalore, India (This position requires a full-time, on-site presence in our Bangalore, India Office)

Job ID: AI2537

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a high-performing robotics perception team responsible for vision-based perception, localization, mapping, and navigation for AMRs, drones, and future robotic platforms.
• Build, mentor, and manage a team of robotics engineers, providing coaching, performance feedback, career development, and technical direction.
• Recruit and scale a world-class engineering organization, establishing hiring standards and building a strong engineering culture.
• Drive execution across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring predictable delivery, technical quality, and alignment with business objectives.
• Architect and guide the development of visual odometry, visual-inertial odometry, visual SLAM, sensor fusion, and 3D scene-understanding systems, while empowering senior engineers to own implementation.
• Partner closely with AI, silicon, hardware, systems, product, and customer engineering teams to deliver production-ready robotics solutions.
• Establish engineering best practices for software architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, release processes, and field validation.
• Drive system-level optimization for embedded AI and edge-compute platforms, ensuring production-quality performance and reliability.
• Lead technical decision-making, design reviews, architecture reviews, and root-cause investigations for complex customer and field issues.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience with 12+ years of experience developing perception, localization, navigation, or autonomy systems for autonomous robotic platforms.
• 5+ years leading and managing high-performing software engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and organizational growth.
• Proven track record of delivering production robotics products through multiple product generations.
• Deep expertise in vision-based robotics, including visual odometry, visual-inertial odometry, visual SLAM, multi-view geometry, camera calibration, and sensor fusion.
• Experience applying modern deep-learning approaches for perception, including object detection, semantic or instance segmentation, depth estimation, tracking, and scene understanding.
• Strong proficiency in C++, Python, and ROS/ROS 2.
• Demonstrated ability to drive architecture across large software systems while enabling execution through senior technical leaders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with experience collaborating across engineering, product, and executive leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling globally distributed engineering teams.
• Experience leading autonomy teams for AMRs, drones, humanoids, or other GPS-denied robotic systems.
• Familiarity with transformer architectures, vision-language models, world models, diffusion models, or vision-language-action systems.
• Experience with simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or equivalent robotics simulation environments.
• Track record of commercial product delivery, patents, publications, or significant open-source contributions.

Personal attributes:

Can-do attitude. Strong team player. Curious, creative, and good at solving problems. Execution and results oriented. Self-driven, Thinks Big and is highly accountable. Good communication skills.