Product Manager - Drone Stack

The Robot Age; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition is hiring a product manager for DroneStack, its autonomy software and hardware stack for unmanned aircraft. The role focuses on taking operator, mission, and platform needs and turning them into product decisions across software and edge compute.

The listing emphasizes real deployed systems, multiple airframes, and defense use cases, requiring alignment of the roadmap with field constraints and operator use.

Qualifications

• Product management experience with technical software, defense, robotics, or aerospace systems.
• Ability to work across customer, operator, engineering, and business constraints.
• Strong product judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving programs.
• Comfort with in-office collaboration and complex autonomy topics.

Responsibilities

• Define product priorities for autonomous drone software and edge-compute capabilities.
• Translate operator, mission, and customer needs into concrete product requirements.
• Coordinate with engineering on autonomy, platform, and hardware tradeoffs.
• Support product decisions across multiple airframe vendors and deployment contexts.
• Help move DroneStack from proven technology into repeatable product delivery.

Skills

Product management

Technical software

Defense systems

Robotics

Aerospace systems

Autonomy software

Edge compute

Job description

What the role actually is

Applied Intuition is hiring a product manager for DroneStack, its autonomy software and hardware stack for unmanned aircraft. The role focuses on taking operator, mission, and platform needs and turning them into product decisions across software and edge compute.

The listing points to real deployed systems, multiple airframes, and defense use cases. That makes this a product role where the roadmap has to line up with field constraints, integration realities, and the ways operators actually use autonomy.

What you would work on

• Define product priorities for autonomous drone software and edge-compute capabilities
• Translate operator, mission, and customer needs into concrete product requirements
• Coordinate with engineering on autonomy, platform, and hardware tradeoffs
• Support product decisions across multiple airframe vendors and deployment contexts
• Help move DroneStack from proven technology into repeatable product delivery

What they are asking for

• Product management experience with technical software, defense, robotics, or aerospace systems
• Ability to work across customer, operator, engineering, and business constraints
• Strong product judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving programs
• Comfort with in-office collaboration and complex autonomy topics

Why this one is worth a look

Drone autonomy is becoming less about a single aircraft and more about the stack around many vehicles, missions, and operators. This role is worth watching because it sits at that product layer, where "autonomy" has to become something deployable and usable.