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Technical Program Manager
$150K–$275K
San Francisco · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2025
- Experience
- 6+ years technical program management experience, including 3+ years at hardware or hardtech companies.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
About the job
Orchestrates complex hardware and scientific programs from conception through delivery, coordinating parallel workstreams across R&D, engineering, validation, and manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Manage program schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, and vendor relationships across parallel workstreams.
- Translate research into technical requirements and coordinate hardware development, scientific validation, and manufacturing readiness.
- Facilitate technical reviews and integration decisions, maintain program documentation, and report status and recommendations to executives.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of technical program management experience, including 3+ years at hardware or hardtech companies.
- Managed programs with 20+ project contributors and coordinated parallel workstreams in flat, project-based, or research-based organizations.
- Direct experience with hardware product development lifecycle, scientific research translation, and coordinating technical contributors across scientific and engineering domains.
- Experience with supply chain management, component sourcing, manufacturing coordination, program budgets, and resource allocation.
Nice to have
- B.S. or higher in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related physical or engineering science discipline.
Pay
$150,000-$275,000 USD (base salary)
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