Senior Manager, Learning from Demonstration

What the role actually is

Agility is hiring a senior manager to lead learning-from-demonstration research for its humanoid platform. The role sits between AI/ML research and product-roadmap risk, with a mandate to move promising ideas toward proof-of-concept robot deployments.

The posting names real-time planning, whole-body control, and demonstration learning as core areas. This is a research leadership role, but the useful signal is that Agility wants research tied to capabilities it may need to ship in the next one to two years.

What you would work on

• Lead innovation projects from research framing through robot proof of concept
• Manage a team of researchers and engineers working on humanoid robot capabilities
• Drive learning-from-demonstration, planning, and control work against product-roadmap risks
• Build a research culture around rigorous experiments, fast iteration, and delivery quality

What they are asking for

• Leadership experience in robotics, AI, ML, or adjacent applied research
• Depth in robot learning, planning, controls, or humanoid robotics
• Ability to connect research bets to functional robot capabilities
• Comfort managing technical teams in a remote U.S. role

Why this one is worth a look

Learning from demonstration is one of the clearer bridges between today's humanoid demos and robots that can absorb new tasks in real settings. Agility's role is interesting because it treats that bridge as both a research agenda and a product-risk function.