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Technical Program Manager, Hardware Systems

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28 → 2026-10-02

Core

Drive development, prototyping, and integration of innovative hardware solutions for data collection and robotic systems, coordinating across mechanical, electrical, test, and supply chain teams.

Role type

Senior Technical Program Manager, Hardware Systems

Builds

Data collection hardware and robotic systems for model development

Domain

Robotics, Hardware Systems, Electromechanical Integration

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Hardware program management, functional requirements definition, cross-functional coordination, design review facilitation, DFM/DFA analysis, supply chain risk management, tradeoff decision making, tactile sensing integration, PCBAs and interconnects integration, mechanical assembly constraints

Preferred skills

Material properties and compliance knowledge, bonding and packaging expertise, EMI-sensitive hardware integration, hands-on debugging of physical systems, calibration and validation setup design

Technologies

PCBAs, interconnects, tactile sensing materials, mechanical structures, harnesses, signal paths

Responsibilities

Set functional requirements for end effector sub-systems and sensing technologies; coordinate hardware iterations from prototype to early production; manage design reviews, documentation, and change control; partner with manufacturing on prototype builds and transition to manufacturable assemblies; drive tradeoff decisions on material selection, performance, cost, and schedule.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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