Senior Robotics Program Manager | Hybrid Cambridge

Roboticsconnected; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Share option scheme

Company social events

Employee Assistance Program

On-site facilities

Free parking

Gym access

Coffees and snacks

Air-conditioned offices

Job summary

Fieldwork Robotics is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead delivery of autonomous robotics products from planning to field deployment. You will work across engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers, turning priorities into clear plans for UK, Europe, and US customers.

Reporting to the CTO, you will balance speed with safety, manage risks, and drive handover to production, while expanding your project management experience within the Fieldwork Robotics roadmap.

Qualifications

• Proven delivery of complex hardware/software products in robotics or related environments.
• Experience engaging with engineers to discuss system-level trade-offs.
• Strong governance of risks, changes, dependencies and delivery milestones.
• Ability to plan cross‑functional activities and manage field deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of integrated hardware and software products from planning through deployment.
• Build cross-functional plans: milestones, budgets, resources, acceptance criteria, dependencies and critical paths.
• Maintain governance: risks, issues, decisions, changes, reporting and escalation.
• Coordinate system integration, verification, commissioning, field trials, suppliers, and customer interfaces.
• Collaborate with technical leads to prioritise defects and balance speed with safety and quality.
• Lead transition from development to repeatable manufacture and leverage field data for continuous improvement.
• Manage grant-funded projects aligned with the technical roadmap.

Skills

Technical project management

Robotics domain

Stakeholder management

Risk and change control

Agile / Scrum

Education

Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Project

ROS 2

Embedded Linux

Job description

Fieldwork Robotics is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead delivery of autonomous robotics products from planning to field deployment. You will work across engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers, turning priorities into clear plans for UK, Europe, and US customers.

Reporting to the CTO, you will balance speed with safety, manage risks, and drive handover to production, while expanding your project management experience within the Fieldwork Robotics roadmap.