技术项目经理，执行器
Technical Program Manager, Actuators
关于团队
我们的机器人团队专注于解锁通用机器人技术，并在动态、现实的环境中推进达到AGI级别的人工智能。我们跨越完整的模型和系统堆栈，整合最前沿的软硬件，探索多种机器人形态。我们努力将高级AI能力与现实系统的物理限制无缝结合，以改善人们的生活。
关于职位
我们正在寻找一名技术项目经理，负责从系统目标到量产准备的执行器开发与集成。该执行器项目涵盖机械、电气、固件、线束、控制、测试、可靠性、制造和供应链，需要一位能够将跨职能决策转化为明确范围、可执行里程碑和及时决策的TPM。
在此职位中，你将帮助团队确定正确的技术方案，尽早发现风险，并按计划交付可靠的执行器系统。
该职位位于加利福尼亚州旧金山，要求每周4天现场办公。
在此职位中，你将：
- 全程推动执行器项目，协调各工程团队之间的范围、里程碑、接口、依赖关系和退出标准。
- 推动冲刺、最小可行产品（MVP）和拓展目标的范围锁定和技术收敛，同时将组件决策与系统性能联系起来。
- 协调电机、齿轮、传感、电子和固件的执行器开发，并协调连接执行器与整体机器人的电气和机械接口。
- 领导从早期原型到工程验证、可靠性测试和量产准备的验证计划。
- 通过跨职能协作，在成本、质量、性能、进度和交货时间之间做出权衡决策，并量化影响以满足项目交付目标。
- 建立有效的技术评审、变更控制、设计发布、决策跟踪和制造准备机制。
- 尽早发现风险并推动决策、负责人和行动达成闭环。
如果你具备以下条件，可能会在这个职位上表现出色：
- 有从开发到制造阶段领导复杂机电硬件项目的经历。
- 能够同时理解执行器的内部架构以及它如何通过PCBA、连接器、线缆等集成到更大的系统中。
- 能够在机械工程、电气工程、固件、互连线束、控制和测试等领域有效协作。
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About Team
Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives.
About the Role
We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to own actuator development and integration from system goals through production readiness. The actuator program spans mechanical, electrical, firmware, harnessing, controls, test, reliability, manufacturing, and supply chain, and needs a TPM who can turn cross-functional decisions into clear scope, executable milestones, and timely decisions.
In this role, you will help the team converge on the right technical plan, surface risks early, and deliver reliable actuator systems on schedule.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA and requires in-person presence 4 days a week.
In this role you will:
- Drive actuator programs end-to-end, aligning scope, milestones, interfaces, dependencies, and exit criteria across engineering teams.
- Drive scope lock and technical convergence for sprints, MVPs, and stretch goals while connecting component decisions to system performance.
- Coordinate actuator development across motors, gears, sensing, electronics, and firmware, and align the electrical and mechanical interfaces that connect actuators to the broader robot.
- Lead validation planning from early prototypes through engineering validation, reliability testing, and production readiness.
- Drive tradeoff decisions across cost, quality, performance, schedule, and lead time by collaborating cross-functionally and quantifying impact to meet program deliverables.
- Establish effective mechanisms for technical reviews, change control, design releases, decision tracking, and manufacturing readiness.
- Surface risks early and drive decisions, owners, and actions to closure.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have led complex electromechanical hardware programs from development through manufacturing.
- Are equally comfortable reasoning about an actuator’s internal architecture and how it integrates into the larger system through PCBAs, connectors, cables,etc.
- Can work effectively across ME, EE, firmware, interconnecting harnesses, controls, test, reliability, manufacturing, and supply chain.
- Understand hardware development realities including prototype cycles, long-lead parts, suppliers, testing, design changes, and production ramp.
What success looks like:
- Cross-functional scope, milestones, interfaces, dependencies, and exit criteria are aligned across engineering, supply chain and manufacturing teams.
- Sprints, MVPs, and stretch goals converge on decisions connected to system performance.
- Validation is planned from early prototypes through engineering validation, reliability testing, and production readiness.
- Risks, tradeoffs, owners, and actions are surfaced early and driven to closure to meet program deliverables.
- Mitigation strategies are well communicated and aligned upon, acceleration of hardware development from design to trials on the floor is quantifiable.
- Tools and workflows built are well embedded in the daily routine of all the team members, thus do not seem an added overhead to get things done.
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