Head of Psysical AI

About this role

Head of Physical AI Location: Remote — Europe and the United States preferred; exceptional candidates globally will be considered Employment: Full-time Reports to: CEO Role type: Hands-on technical leader and team builder Travel: As needed About our Client Our client builds the data, evaluation, and deployment layer for Physical AI. The company works across multimodal robot and human data, annotation and assurance, model evaluation, and the systems that turn physical-world experience into useful robot behavior. Miraxis is hardware- and model-agnostic. What matters is whether a dataset, model, or method produces a measurable improvement on a real task. The company will build focused model and evaluation capabilities where they strengthen its data products, demonstrate the value of its data, or solve a clear customer or partner problem. The role Our client is looking for a Head of Physical AI to establish and lead its AI research and engineering function. You will decide which Physical AI problems the company pursues, define how results are evaluated, and remain directly involved in the most important technical work. You will connect four areas that are often treated separately: Multimodal and embodied data Transformer-based models and robot policies Rigorous offline and real-world evaluation Deployment on physical systems This is a player-coach role. During your first year, at least half of your time will be spent on direct technical work: designing models and experiments, writing or reviewing code, inspecting data, debugging training runs, analyzing failures, and reviewing robot rollouts. You will also build a small, focused team of researchers and engineers as the work requires it. What you’ll do Define a focused Physical AI research and engineering roadmap with clear hypotheses, baselines, milestones, success measures, and stop criteria. Select the model families Miraxis should train, adapt, or evaluate and determine when to build internally, use open models, lice