Gen 3 Platform PM — Hardware-Software Systems Lead

Formulate Labs; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Formulate Labs is seeking a Product Manager (Gen 3 Platform) in California to own the end-to-end roadmap for our next-gen manufacturing system spanning hardware, automation, software orchestration, and deployment workflows.

You will define the platform capabilities, constraints, pricing logic, deployment model, and long-term evolution, working with Engineering, AI, Manufacturing, and Business teams to translate vision into shipped systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product management experience in platform, hardware-software, or systems-based environments.
• Strong technical fluency; comfortable discussing architecture, constraints, and tradeoffs with engineers.
• Experience coordinating across hardware, software, AI, and operations teams.
• Ability to think in systems and understand ripple effects across hardware, software, and economics.
• Strong prioritization in high-ambiguity environments.
• High agency and bias toward action; move quickly without waiting for perfect information.
• Excellent communication to align engineers, operators, and leadership.
• Actively leverages AI tools to accelerate research, documentation, and roadmap development.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the roadmap for the Gen 3 hardware + software platform.
• Translate high-level company strategy into clear product milestones and release plans.
• Partner with engineering to define system capabilities, constraints, and performance targets.
• Balance hardware iteration cycles with software velocity and deployment realities.
• Define pricing logic, packaging, and feature segmentation in collaboration with Business Development.
• Prioritize platform improvements based on customer feedback, operational data, and strategic direction.
• Ensure tight integration between robotics systems, manufacturing software, and AI optimization layers.
• Establish metrics for platform performance, reliability, uptime, and economic efficiency.
• Communicate roadmap, tradeoffs, and progress clearly across teams.

Skills

Product management

Technical fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Systems thinking

Prioritization under ambiguity

Effective communication

AI tooling for research

Job description

Formulate Labs is seeking a Product Manager (Gen 3 Platform) in California to own the end-to-end roadmap for our next-gen manufacturing system spanning hardware, automation, software orchestration, and deployment workflows.

You will define the platform capabilities, constraints, pricing logic, deployment model, and long-term evolution, working with Engineering, AI, Manufacturing, and Business teams to translate vision into shipped systems.