Mind Robotics
Technical Program Manager, Hardware
Palo Alto · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; robotics or related integrated products are described as ideal, not required.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Owns end-to-end hardware program planning and execution for robot development, while establishing program-management practices and coordinating cross-functional teams.
What you'll do
- Plan robot development across mechanical, electrical, compute, actuation, and sensor systems; align subsystem plans with organizational milestones.
- Drive technical decisions, monitor progress and risks, and communicate status, blockers, and mitigations to leadership.
- Establish hardware program-management rhythms, tracking systems, and decision-support artifacts.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of technical program management experience in hardware product development.
- Demonstrated success taking hardware projects from ideas to hardened, reliable products.
- Strong engineering or science fundamentals and experience managing interdependent technical domains and cross-functional dependencies.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience in robotics or products integrating mechanical, electrical, compute, actuation, and sensing systems.
AI focus
The role supports development and deployment of robots for physical AI, but no specific AI work is stated for the position.
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