Principal Product Manager, Physical AI & Robotics Platform

Arm Limited; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 281,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm Limited seeks a Principal Product Manager to own representative Physical AI applications and the reusable ML and software stack beneath them, spanning humanoids, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.

The role turns customer problems into product choices, requirements, and measured results across application, platform, silicon, and partner teams to decide what Arm should build and how developers should use it.

Qualifications

• Proven record owning complex technical products at Principal scope.
• Product management experience with developer platforms, AI/ML systems, robotics or autonomy, or products that span hardware and software.
• Technical fluency across robotics and autonomy, AI/ML workflows and inference, edge platforms, and heterogeneous compute.
• Ability to turn customer and partner workloads into product requirements, priorities, roadmaps, and release decisions.
• Experience defining benchmarks, acceptance criteria, and evidence plans for technical products.
• Clear written and verbal communication, strong product judgment, and a record of driving decisions across senior technical and business leaders.
• Technical degree in computer science, electrical or computer engineering, robotics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Set the product direction.
• Choose target developers and workloads; define problem, outcome, roadmap, and boundaries.
• Define the application and stack.
• Set requirements and interfaces across sensing, perception, state estimation, planning, control, models, inference serving, QoS, middleware, APIs and SDKs, simulation, deployment, and observability.
• Decide where Arm should build, integrate, partner, or preserve customer choice.
• Keep common paths simple while advanced developers retain control.
• Prove and deliver the product.
• Set the backlog, milestones, quality bars, and release criteria.
• Define evaluation with representative workloads, including task success, latency, power, memory, failure behavior, and time to deploy.
• Use prototypes and reference implementations to distinguish capability from hypothesis.
• Work with customers and drive decisions.
• Validate workflows with developers, OEMs, silicon and software partners, and early customers.
• Bring leadership to clear decisions on priorities, ownership, and dependencies; represent the product in reviews and launches.

Skills

Product strategy

Developer platforms

AI/ML systems

Robotics

Edge platforms

Requirements & roadmaps

Communication

Education

Technical degree in CS/EE/Robotics

Tools

ROS 2

Job description

Arm Limited seeks a Principal Product Manager to own representative Physical AI applications and the reusable ML and software stack beneath them, spanning humanoids, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.

The role turns customer problems into product choices, requirements, and measured results across application, platform, silicon, and partner teams to decide what Arm should build and how developers should use it.