Staff TPM: Robotics Software & Autonomy

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

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