Platform PM, Gen 3 Manufacturing (HW+SW)

Formulate Robotics; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Ownership of platform

High autonomy

Impactful work

Job summary

Formulate Robotics seeks a Product Manager (Gen 3 Platform) in California to own the end-to-end roadmap for our next-generation manufacturing system, spanning hardware, automation, software orchestration, and deployment workflows. You will define platform capabilities, constraints, performance targets, pricing logic, deployment model, and long-term evolution.

You will collaborate 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 working across multidisciplinary teams (hardware, software, AI, operations).
• Ability to think in systems - you understand how changes ripple across hardware, software, and economics.
• Strong prioritization skills in high-ambiguity environments.
• High agency and bias toward action; you move quickly without waiting for perfect information.
• Excellent communication skills; able to align engineers, operators, and leadership.
• Actively leverages modern 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

PM experience

Technical fluency

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Systems thinking

Prioritization

Bias toward action

Communication

AI tools usage

Job description

Formulate Robotics seeks a Product Manager (Gen 3 Platform) in California to own the end-to-end roadmap for our next-generation manufacturing system, spanning hardware, automation, software orchestration, and deployment workflows. You will define platform capabilities, constraints, performance targets, pricing logic, deployment model, and long-term evolution.

You will collaborate with Engineering, AI, Manufacturing, and Business teams to translate vision into shipped systems.