Bedrock Robotics
Technical Program Manager, Safety
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of technical program management experience, including 2+ years leading programs involving safety-critical or high-integrity systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Owns cross-functional program execution for the safety and systems engineering work needed to validate and deploy autonomous heavy equipment.
What you'll do
- Plan and execute safety and systems programs from requirements through validated field deployment, maintaining traceable requirements and release readiness.
- Build validation plans spanning simulation and on-site testing, and manage dependencies, risks, changes, and tradeoffs across technical teams.
- Lead program reviews and reporting, and translate field signals into prioritized engineering work tracked through resolution.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of technical program management experience, including 2+ years leading programs involving safety-critical or high-integrity systems.
- Domain experience in robotics, autonomous systems, aerospace, or another physical-world safety-critical domain; working understanding of software, firmware, and hardware stacks behind real-world autonomy.
- Working familiarity with a functional safety standard, such as ISO 26262 or IEC 61508, and fluency in statistics and probability sufficient to interpret validation results and reliability metrics.
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Startup experience.
- A track record of managing complex cross-functional programs under ambiguity, taking systems from concept to production.
Tools
ISO 26262, IEC 61508
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