BRINC Drones
Principal TPM, Drone & Autonomy Software
$145K–$245K
Seattle, WA · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Apr 3, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of technical program management experience delivering embedded/device software or autonomy/robotics software for hardware products.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (CS, EE, CE, Robotics, Aerospace, Systems, or related) or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads cross-functional delivery and release of BRINC’s drone device software and autonomy capabilities, coordinating engineering, hardware, testing, and field teams to ship reliable updates and features.
What you'll do
- Manage end-to-end programs across embedded software, autonomy, hardware integration, testing, and release engineering, including weekly OTA release cadence.
- Coordinate release plans, dependencies, readiness reviews, validation, rollout, and post-release follow-up for deployed devices and new hardware.
- Drive delivery of autonomy capabilities such as localization, mapping, path planning, obstacle avoidance, and mission behaviors.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (CS, EE, CE, Robotics, Aerospace, Systems, or related) or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of technical program management experience delivering embedded/device software or autonomy/robotics software for hardware products.
- Track record coordinating release trains and shipping updates to deployed devices, such as OTA or staged rollouts.
- Technical fluency across embedded systems and autonomy, including hardware-software interfaces, perception/navigation/controls pipelines, performance constraints, telemetry, and validation.
Nice to have
- Experience with complex hardware/software mission-critical systems.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux, RTOS, device update mechanisms, or autonomy and robotics concepts.
Pay
$145K – $245K USD base salary
Tools
embedded Linux, RTOS, OTA, SLAM/VIO, GNSS/INS, CI/CD, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), EVT/DVT/PVT
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