Senior TPM - Autonomy & Robotics Programs Leader

AIM Intelligent Machines; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Equity

401(k)

Life insurance

Travel opportunities

Job summary

AIM Intelligent Machines in Seattle seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to orchestrate end-to-end lifecycles of cross-functional programs spanning hardware, robotics, autonomy, and cloud infrastructure.

You will translate ambiguous problems into clear requirements, drive safety and reliability, and collaborate with engineering, field ops, OEM partners, and vendors across time zones to deliver high-impact deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent hands-on technical experience.
• Experience working with hardware, firmware, robotics, or mission-critical software.
• Experience managing cross-functional engineering programs.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for complex programs spanning hardware, robotics, autonomy, and cloud infrastructure.
• Define program mission, vision, tenets, success metrics, and long-term goals.
• Translate ambiguous problems into clear requirements and orchestrate delivery across multiple engineering teams.
• Work backwards from customers, field operations, and OEM partners to ensure deployments meet safety, performance, and reliability bars.
• Dive deep into system architecture - hardware interfaces, perception pipelines, control systems, on-machine compute, system health, and data flows.
• Partner with senior engineers to force-multiply engineering capacity and simplify system interactions across teams.
• Manage the lifecycle of highly complex, multi-team programs - requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Drive critical path decisions, mitigate risks proactively, clear blockers, coordinate dependencies, and elevate with perfect judgment.
• Build and evolve mechanisms for predictable program delivery across teams - ORRs, CoEs, design reviews, cross-team schedules, and risk frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineering, field ops, deployment teams, OEM partners, vendors, and customers across global time zones.
• Communicate at all levels - from deeply technical engineering discussions to executive-level program narratives.
• Harmonize conflicting viewpoints and drive alignment across hardware, software, autonomy, and operations.
• Ensure programs uphold the highest bars for safety, availability, testability, serviceability, and customer readiness.
• Identify systemic gaps and drive mechanisms that eliminate repeat issues.
• Continuously raise engineering quality and process rigor across teams.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Cross-functional leadership

System design & trade-offs

Hardware/firmware/robotics experience

Ambiguity management

Engineering process development

Vendor & partner collaboration

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering - or equivalent hands-on technical experience

Job description

AIM Intelligent Machines in Seattle seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to orchestrate end-to-end lifecycles of cross-functional programs spanning hardware, robotics, autonomy, and cloud infrastructure.

You will translate ambiguous problems into clear requirements, drive safety and reliability, and collaborate with engineering, field ops, OEM partners, and vendors across time zones to deliver high-impact deployments.