Technical Program Director – Autonomous Systems, Robotics & AI_(Kochi)

Title: Technical Program Director/Head - Autonomous Systems, Robotics & AI
Location: Kochi KL
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: 15-20 years

Required Skills:

• Lead end-to-end strategic programs across AI/ML, Computer Vision, Robotics, Autonomous Systems, ADAS and Physical AI, from architecture and planning through development, integration, validation, deployment and production scale-up.
• Strong expertise in Deep Learning, Foundation Models, Transformers, GenAI, multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and production-scale model training, optimization and evaluation.
• Strong knowledge of robotics and autonomous systems, including perception, sensor fusion, localization/SLAM, state estimation, motion planning, low-level control, hardware-software integration, ROS/ROS2, Autoware, and Perception-Decision-Planning-Control architectures.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams across AI/ML, CV, robotics, embedded, cloud/platform, simulation, QA, DevOps/MLOps and hardware, with ownership of roadmaps, budgets, capacity, risks, dependencies, releases, KPIs/OKRs and customer/partner/executive communication.
• Drive scalable production AI infrastructure and multimodal data pipelines, MLOps, Azure/GCP, CI/CD, containers, orchestration, monitoring, simulation, scenario generation, automated validation/regression, sim-to-real, real-time inference and safety-aware/fail-operational systems across globally distributed engineering organizations.