Senior AI Research Program Manager

Roboticsconnected; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI is building generalist intelligent robots and scaling research programs from pre-training to deployment. We seek a Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager to own integrated execution, connect milestones, and balance resources across ML, data, GPU, hardware, and customer-facing model delivery.

You will partner with Research, infrastructure, robotics, and hardware teams to turn ambiguity into practical options while accelerating research-to-model handoffs.

Qualifications

• Significant technical program management experience delivering complex, interdependent work across software, ML, research infrastructure, robotics.
• Strong understanding of the machine learning development lifecycle, including datasets, model training, evaluation, iteration, and production challenges.
• Ability to build an execution system from an ambiguous starting point and drive progress across teams without direct authority.
• Technical fluency to work credibly with researchers and infrastructure engineers and present real trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Build the integrated research roadmap translating project plans into an up-to-date view of experiments, milestones, and dependencies.
• Coordinate transitions from pre-training to deployment with clear ownership and readiness criteria.
• Synchronize data, compute, and hardware planning, forecasting capacity and scheduling trade-offs.
• Drive blockers to resolution by surfacing gaps and proposing concrete recommendations to leadership.
• Surface capacity and staffing risks early to inform resource planning without owning personnel decisions.
• Establish lightweight execution rhythms with concise leadership updates and decision logs.
• Manage uncertainty by distinguishing experiments from deployment commitments and tracking learning goals.
• Improve cross-functional execution by clarifying interfaces and release expectations with hardware and operations teams.

Skills

Technical program management

ML lifecycle

Cross-functional leadership

Technical fluency

Resource coordination

Tools

GPUs

Data pipelines

Robotics hardware

Job description

Rhoda AI is building generalist intelligent robots and scaling research programs from pre-training to deployment. We seek a Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager to own integrated execution, connect milestones, and balance resources across ML, data, GPU, hardware, and customer-facing model delivery.

You will partner with Research, infrastructure, robotics, and hardware teams to turn ambiguity into practical options while accelerating research-to-model handoffs.