Robotics AI/ML Program Manager - Field Deployments

FieldAI; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FieldAI in Irvine seeks a seasoned Technical Program Manager to align customer needs with research and engineering commitments across AI/ML programs. You will own delivery timelines, surface risks, and drive cross-team coordination to keep deployments on track.

You will partner with senior technical leads and leadership, translating requirements into actionable plans while maintaining honest communications with customers and internal stakeholders, enabling reliable field-ready autonomy.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years as a Technical Program Manager or equivalent in AI/ML or data-driven engineering.
• Experience across the AI/ML lifecycle: data collection, labeling, model training, evaluation, deployment.
• Experience working directly with customers or external stakeholders, turning their needs into internal priorities and timelines.
• A demonstrated track record of bringing structure to ambiguous, fast-moving technical programs.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, or related), or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the program-level picture across concurrent research and engineering workstreams: what is in flight, who owns it, what is due, and what is slipping.
• Translate customer and product requirements into prioritized internal work, and keep delivery timelines honest against what has been committed externally.
• Serve as a program-level point of contact for customer deployments — carrying their needs inward, and carrying status, tradeoffs, and timelines back out.
• Surface risks and blockers before they become schedule problems, and drive them to resolution across teams.
• Run the re-prioritization conversations when commitments change: what continues, what pauses, what gets reassigned, and who needs to hear about it.
• Build reporting and tracking that engineers will actually maintain — enough signal to steer by, light enough to survive a fast quarter.
• Partner with senior technical leads and the leadership team without directing the technical approach.

Skills

Program management

AI/ML lifecycle

Customer-facing

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Notion

Slack

Google Workspace

Job description

FieldAI in Irvine seeks a seasoned Technical Program Manager to align customer needs with research and engineering commitments across AI/ML programs. You will own delivery timelines, surface risks, and drive cross-team coordination to keep deployments on track.

You will partner with senior technical leads and leadership, translating requirements into actionable plans while maintaining honest communications with customers and internal stakeholders, enabling reliable field-ready autonomy.