Gen 3 Platform PM - Programmable Manufacturing

Formulate Robotics; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Formulate Robotics is building an applied AI platform for autonomous industrial batching. As Product Manager for the Gen 3 Platform, you will own the end-to-end roadmap spanning hardware, automation, software orchestration, and deployment workflows.

You will work across robotics, controls, AI systems, and manufacturing software to define capabilities, constraints, performance targets, and pricing logic, translating vision into shipped systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in platform/hardware-software product management.
• Able to discuss architecture and constraints with engineers.
• Experience with multidisciplinary teams.
• Systems thinking about hardware, software, and economics.
• Strong prioritization in ambiguity.
• Excellent communication across engineers, operators, leadership.
• Leverages modern AI tools.

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

Systems thinking

Cross-functional teams

Technical fluency

Prioritization

Communication

AI tools

Job description

Formulate Robotics is building an applied AI platform for autonomous industrial batching. As Product Manager for the Gen 3 Platform, you will own the end-to-end roadmap spanning hardware, automation, software orchestration, and deployment workflows.

You will work across robotics, controls, AI systems, and manufacturing software to define capabilities, constraints, performance targets, and pricing logic, translating vision into shipped systems.