Staff Technical Program Manager, Software

The Robot Age; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Collaborative Robotics seeks a staff-level technical program manager to lead software programs for Proxie, its collaborative mobile robot. You will drive autonomy, localization, perception, navigation, robot behaviors, and fleet-management initiatives, aligning engineering, hardware, and leadership around a shared roadmap.

You will translate customer needs into concrete software plans, balance schedules, and manage cross-functional dependencies while mitigating risks throughout development and

Qualifications

• Staff-level technical program management experience with complex software or robotics systems.
• Ability to work across engineering, product, hardware, operations, and company leadership.
• Strong technical judgment around autonomy, deployed systems, or AI-enabled products.
• Comfort turning ambiguity into plans that teams can actually execute.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery for robot software and fleet-management programs
• Coordinate autonomy, behavior, hardware, operations, and customer-facing dependencies
• Translate customer and product needs into technical scope, schedules, and tradeoffs
• Identify risks during development and deployment, then drive cross-functional resolution

Skills

Staff-level TPM experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Autonomy/AI-enabled systems judgment

Ambiguity to plan execution

Job description

What the role actually is

Collaborative Robotics is hiring a staff-level technical program manager to run software programs for Proxie, its collaborative mobile robot. The role covers autonomy, localization, perception, navigation, robot behaviors, and fleet-management systems.

This is a product-shaped TPM role: the person has to turn customer and deployment needs into executable software plans while keeping engineering, hardware, operations, and leadership aligned.

What you would work on

• Lead planning and delivery for robot software and fleet-management programs
• Coordinate autonomy, behavior, hardware, operations, and customer-facing dependencies
• Translate customer and product needs into technical scope, schedules, and tradeoffs
• Identify risks during development and deployment, then drive cross-functional resolution

What they are asking for

• Staff-level technical program management experience with complex software or robotics systems
• Ability to work across engineering, product, hardware, operations, and company leadership
• Strong technical judgment around autonomy, deployed systems, or AI-enabled products
• Comfort turning ambiguity into plans that teams can actually execute

Why this one is worth a look

Collaborative Robotics is trying to make robots that fit into human environments instead of forcing the environment to adapt around them. That makes program leadership unusually important: the software roadmap has to connect robot capability, customer workflows, and reliable behavior around people.