Technical Program Manager

MVP Ventures; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel opportunities across the U.S.

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Equity

Life insurance

Job summary

AIM is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager in Seattle to orchestrate end-to-end programs that span hardware, robotics, autonomy, and cloud infrastructure. You will align engineering, field operations, and OEM partners to deliver safe, reliable deployments that meet rigorous performance targets.

Lead multi-team efforts, translate ambiguous problems into clear requirements, and drive execution excellence with a focus on safety and customer readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, Robotics, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of technical program management or robotics deployment experience.
• Experience driving cross-disciplinary engineering programs from inception to delivery.
• Ability to dive into system design and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Experience with hardware, firmware, robotics, or mission-critical software.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive end-to-end programs spanning hardware, autonomy, and cloud infra.
• Lead cross-functional teams across engineering, field ops, and partners.
• Manage requirements, design, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Ensure safety, reliability, and high operational readiness across deployments.
• Communicate with executives and stakeholders from field to boardroom.

Skills

Technical PM

Cross-Functional Leadership

Hardware Robotics

System Architecture

Risk Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Robotics

Job description

About AIM

AIM builds autonomy for the real world - robots that move mountains. Our systems fuse software, electronics, mechanics, perception, and mission-critical infrastructure into ruggedized, safety-critical machinery operating on jobsites across the world. We replace manual, error-prone, high-risk tasks with intelligent machines that reshape how earthmoving is done.

Technical Program Manager

Location

Seattle

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

Compensation

• $150K – $200K

About Us

AIM builds autonomy for the real world - robots that move mountains. Our systems fuse hardware, robotics, autonomy, and mission-critical software into ruggedized, safety-critical machinery that operates on job sites across the world. We are replacing decades of manual, error-prone, high-risk work with intelligent, automated machines that transform how earthmoving is done.

About You

You’ll drive programs that bring autonomy from development into the physical world. AIM machines operate across challenging real-world environments - varying terrain, climates, materials, and operating conditions. TPMs at AIM orchestrate the engineering, hardware, and field efforts required to ensure our autonomy stack performs consistently and safely across these real operational domains.

About Us Together

We’re growing fast, scaling globally, and building the operational backbone that will define the next century of construction.

What You Will Own

As a Senior TPM, you will orchestrate the end-to-end lifecycle of AIM’s most critical cross-functional programs:

Define & Drive Programs (Strategic + Tactical)

• 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.

Technical Leadership

• Dive deep into system architecture - hardware interfaces, perception pipelines, control systems, on-machine compute, system health, and data flows.
• Ask the right technical questions, identify architectural risks early, and ensure trade-offs are made with full awareness of long-term consequences.
• Partner with senior engineers to force-multiply engineering capacity and simplify system interactions across teams.

Execution Excellence

• 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 escape with perfect judgment.
• Build and evolve mechanisms for predictable program delivery across teams - ORRs, CoEs, design reviews, cross-team schedules, and risk frameworks.

Cross-functional Influence

• 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.

Operational Excellence

• 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering - or equivalent hands-on technical experience.
• 7+ years of technical program management, engineering management, robotics deployment, or equivalent cross-functional experience.
• Proven success driving complex, cross-disciplinary engineering programs from inception to delivery.
• Ability to dive deeply into technical system design and communicate trade-offs, risks, and decisions clearly.
• Experience working directly with hardware, firmware, robotics, or mission-critical software.
• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, reduce complexity, and deliver predictable outcomes across multiple teams.
• Strong judgment and experience managing programs with competing priorities, tight timelines, and high operational risk.
• Hands-on experience with engineering process development - sprints, ORRs, incident management, testing, QA, or deployment readiness.
• Experience working with suppliers, vendors, or cross-organizational partners.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites, OEM partners, and global deployments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with autonomous systems, robotics, industrial controls, heavy machinery, or real-world hardware-software systems.
• Prior experience managing programs involving GNSS/INS, LiDAR, perception systems, real-time embedded systems, or machine safety.
• Demonstrated success running high-risk field deployments or customer-facing technical operations.
• Strong ability to simplify complex systems and drive architectural clarity across teams.
• Ability to influence system architecture, engineering processes, and organizational mechanisms at scale.
• Experience managing OEM partnerships or government/enterprise programs with high compliance requirements.
• Mastery of modern program mechanisms: PR/FAQ, 6-pagers, risk matrices, design reviews, and operational readiness frameworks.

How You’ll Stand Out

• You can operate seamlessly from the field (inside a dozer cab) to a whiteboard with principal engineers.
• You are respected by engineers for your technical judgment and by leadership for your crisp decision-making.
• You simplify, clarify, and drive alignment in environments with high ambiguity and high stakes.
• You make teams faster, better, and more aligned - and you do it through mechanisms, not heroics.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to own programs that directly shape the future of autonomy and industrial robotics.
• A high-impact role with global visibility and influence across engineering, product, and operations.
• Growth opportunities in a rapidly scaling, ambitious, mission-driven company.
• Competitive compensation, equity, medical/dental/vision, 401(k), and life insurance.
• Travel opportunities across the U.S., Europe, Australia, Africa, South America, and emerging markets.
• The chance to build a legacy - defining the systems, culture, and engineering standards for the next era of automated construction.

Compensation Range: $150K - $200K