Robotics Platform Lead — Technical Program Manager

Lila Sciences; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (early-stage)

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Lila Sciences in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Robotics to own Physical AI platform programs across multiple engineering teams. You will translate the platform roadmap into a sequenced plan, own reliability and scalability initiatives, and drive capacity planning and readiness.

This role emphasizes influence without authority, requiring rigorous judgment and clear communication with both engineers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of technical program management for platform or infrastructure software across multiple teams.
• Experience managing cross-team dependencies, critical paths, and risk registers on multi-quarter programs.
• Hands‑on with SLOs, launch readiness, capacity planning, or release/incident processes.
• Depth to engage backend, platform/SRE, and QA engineers on trade-offs.
• Proven ability to drive delivery and hard decisions across non‑managed teams.
• Ability to translate technical details to non‑technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Physical AI Platform roadmap with sequenced milestones and owners.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and surface blockers to unblock work.
• Own reliability and scalability programs including SLOs, launch readiness, and capacity planning.
• Track risk end-to-end with a living risk register and ensure incident follow‑through to closure.
• Align stakeholders on scope and trade-offs to keep platform teams informed.
• Coordinate releases to ensure predictable launches and deployment processes.
• Raise operational rigor with rituals like status updates, escalation paths, and decision records.

Skills

Platform program management

Dependency & risk management

Reliability & scalability

Technical credibility

Influence without authority

Clear communication

Job description

Lila Sciences in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for Robotics to own Physical AI platform programs across multiple engineering teams. You will translate the platform roadmap into a sequenced plan, own reliability and scalability initiatives, and drive capacity planning and readiness.

This role emphasizes influence without authority, requiring rigorous judgment and clear communication with both engineers and stakeholders.