Full time
Chewy
Woburn, MA, USA
Job Description: Our Opportunity: Humanoid robotics is moving from impressive demos to real production deployments, and the teams that translate frontier AI into repeatable, safe, high-throughput operation will define the category. Chewy operates at the scale where production proof matters, and our fulfillment environment creates a demanding, measurable testbed for manipulation, recovery from edge cases, and safe operation around people and equipment. As Associate Director of Physical AI, you will lead a team of scientists and engineers building the core technical capabilities that make humanoids useful in the real world. You will set the team’s technical agenda, establish a roadmap that balances research ambition with operational outcomes, and partner across engineering, product, operations, and external stakeholders to deliver a portfolio of results that compounds over time. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can navigate trade-offs, raise technical...

