Technical Product Manager

Genesis; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesis is seeking a product leader to own the roadmap for our core Physical AI capabilities, translating research breakthroughs into deployable, customer-facing products. You will work at the intersection of research, robotics engineering, and field deployment, turning complex tradeoffs into clear decisions and defining readiness for customer sites.

This role requires tight collaboration with distributed teams and a bias toward field results over abstract theory.

Qualifications

• Track record of shipping technical products with complex tradeoffs.
• Ability to read policy evaluations and discuss sim-to-real gaps without coding.
• Bias toward field deployment over whiteboard exercises.
• Excellent written specs and decision logs.
• Comfort working with incomplete information in fast-moving pre-paradigm field.
• Bonus: experience in robotics, autonomy or related domains.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for core Physical AI capabilities and translate research breakthroughs into deployable, customer-facing products.
• Bridge research, robotics engineering, and field deployment to resolve tradeoffs.
• Define readiness criteria for customer-site deployments with metrics and thresholds for each release.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across distributed teams in research, engineering, and field operations.

Skills

Product roadmap ownership

Trade-off decision making

Technical reading

Field-oriented approach

Written communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Robotics/autonomy domain knowledge

Job description

What You’ll Do

• Own the product roadmap for our core Physical AI capabilities, translating research breakthroughs into deployable, customer-facing products.

• Sit at the intersection of research, robotics engineering, and field deployment to turn ambiguous technical tradeoffs into clear product decisions.

• Define what “ready for a customer site” actually means by setting success metrics, reliability thresholds, and scope boundaries for each release.

• Drive cross-functional alignment across distributed teams in research, engineering, and field operations.

What You’ll Bring

• Track record of shipping technical products where the primary challenge was managing complex tradeoffs, not filling out roadmap slides.

• Deep enough technical understanding to read a policy evaluation, understand a sim-to-real gap, or participate in complex debug sessions and ask the right questions without needing to write the code yourself.

• Strong bias toward the field over the whiteboard, preferring to evaluate a failed pick on a live customer floor over reading ten synthetic benchmark reports.

• Exceptional written communication skills to write specs and decision logs that hold up when you’re not in the room.

• Comfort operating with incomplete information in a fast-moving, pre-paradigm field where answers aren’t obvious.

• Bonus: Prior experience in robotics, autonomy, or another domain where “works in the lab” and “works in the world” carry vastly different bars for success.