Amazon
Principal Technical Program Manager, Fauna
$195K–$263K
New York, NY · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of technical product or program management; 10+ years working directly with engineering teams; 5+ years of software development.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads the end-to-end robot software release program, coordinating planning, integration, quality, and deployment as Fauna’s products and organization grow.
What you'll do
- Own release cadence, go/no-go criteria, staged rollouts, and rollback decisions.
- Coordinate software readiness across hardware, firmware, science, and manufacturing teams; manage roadmaps, dependencies, and launch integration.
- Define release quality bars, use test and field data to guide ship decisions, and communicate risks and tradeoffs to senior leadership.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience.
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience.
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules, including software releases for products that run on physical devices.
Nice to have
- Experience bringing machine learning models from research into a shipping product.
- Experience with release engineering, CI/CD, hardware-in-the-loop testing, over-the-air updates, or robotics frameworks such as ROS 2.
Pay
USD 194,700.00 - 263,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
CI/CD, ROS 2, SDKs, APIs, embedded Linux
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