Team Head / Technical Product Owner – Physical AI Platform (Hybrid)

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About the role

Team Head / Technical Product Owner - Physical AI Platforms, Canada

Are you an entrepreneurial technology leader with a passion for building high-performing R&D teams and turning advanced AI and robotics concepts into scalable industrial platforms?

Do you thrive at the intersection of product ownership, software engineering, robotics, AI, and customer-facing innovation?

We are seeking an outstanding Team Head / Technical Product Owner to establish and lead a new Canada-based development team focused on building the platform foundations for Physical AI in industrial environments. This team will initially cover three tightly connected areas:

• Robotics Data Platform
• Robotics Skills Enablement
• Robot Task Workflow Execution / Machine-level Orchestration

In this critical role, you will build the Canada team, shape the roadmap, define the operating model with research and product stakeholders, and drive the development of a secure, scalable, customer-ready platform for collecting, validating, governing, operationalizing, and using robotics data in support of advanced AI-enabled robotic applications.

This is a leadership role for someone who can combine strategic product thinking, strong technical understanding, and hands-on team-building capability in an emerging and highly cross-functional domain!

What will you do?

• Build and lead the Canada Physical AI platform team, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, and creating a strong engineering culture.
• Own the team roadmap across robotics data platform capabilities, Level 3 skill enablement support, and workflow execution/orchestration foundations.
• Translate strategic goals, customer needs, research inputs, and platform constraints into a clear backlog, delivery plan, and operating model.
• Shape the team’s technical and product mission in close collaboration with global stakeholders across robotics, AI, platform engineering, industrial software, and research.
• Act as a primary interface between the Canada team and research partners, including teams focused on model development, evaluation, and advanced robotics AI.
• Drive customer and pilot readiness by ensuring the platform can support industrial data campaigns, secure onboarding, governance, observability, and operational execution.
• Establish a scalable way of working including backlog management, sprint cadence, release planning, quality expectations, and milestone reviews.
• Ensure clear boundaries and collaboration models between research teams, platform teams, integration teams, and future application/runtime teams.
• Promote responsible AI-assisted engineering practices to improve developer productivity, documentation, testing, and engineering quality.
• Grow the Canada site from a founding team into a thriving hub for Physical AI platform engineering.

What you will bring

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience, in Product Ownership, Engineering Management, Technical Leadership, or Team Leadership roles in software, AI, robotics, industrial technology, or platform engineering.
• Strong ability to turn ambiguous strategic direction into structured product requirements, delivery plans, and technical priorities.
• Solid understanding of AI/ML workflows, robotics systems, industrial software, cloud-native platforms, APIs, DevOps, cybersecurity, and data lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated experience building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing technical teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across research, engineering, product management, business leadership, and customer-facing organizations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to align executive and engineering audiences.
• A practical and goal driven attitude, especially in early-stage platform environments.

What sets you apart

• Experience with robotics data, robot learning, VLA/VLM-related workflows, or industrial automation environments.
• Experience building AI platforms, data platforms, MLOps platforms, or developer platforms.
• Experience working across global matrix organizations or research-to-product transitions.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration, robotics connectivity, or edge/industrial deployment environments.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Build the founding team and platform capability for a strategic Physical AI initiative in Canada.
• Innovation: Work at the intersection of robotics, AI, industrial software, workflow orchestration, and platform engineering.
• Leadership: Shape the direction, culture, and operating model of a new strategic engineering organization.
• Collaboration: Partner with leading global research, product, and engineering teams.
• Growth: Help define how Physical AI platform capabilities scale from data foundations to runtime-enabled industrial applications.

Salary: Salary is commensurate with experience, and base salary ranges between $ 165,000 CAD - $ 200,000 CAD, excluding bonus and benefits. In addition to base salary, this role includes eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15% to 20% of the base salary, based on Company performance metrics.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2025.

About Us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Canada is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility and healthcare.

The company’s purpose is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more liveable, and transportation more sustainable.

Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast-to-coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca

While we appreciate all applications we receive, we advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

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