Technical Product Manager Deployment Bay Area

Genesis; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; 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 and coordinating across research, robotics engineering, and field deployment.

You will define readiness criteria for customer sites, set reliability thresholds, and drive cross-functional alignment to turn ambiguous tradeoffs into clear decisions on real-world deployments.

Qualifications

• Track record of shipping technical products where the main challenge was managing complex tradeoffs.
• Ability to read a policy evaluation, understand a sim-to-real gap, and participate in debugging discussions.
• Strong bias toward field work and real-world deployment over theoretical analysis.
• Exceptional written communication to draft specs and decision logs.
• Comfort operating with incomplete information in a fast-moving environment.
• Bonus: prior robotics, autonomy, or related domain experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for core Physical AI capabilities and translate breakthroughs into deployable products.
• Sit at the intersection of research, robotics engineering, and field deployment to resolve tradeoffs.
• Define what is ready for customer sites by setting metrics, reliability thresholds, and scope.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across distributed teams in research, engineering, and field operations.

Skills

Shipping technical products

Policy evaluation understanding

Sim-to-real gap insight

Debug collaboration without coding

Written specifications & logs

Field-first approach

Robotics/autonomy familiarity

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.