Watney
Engineering Program Manager - Robotics
San Francisco · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- At least one 0-to-1 hardware program cycle at a large company; no years specified.
About the job
Owns end-to-end hardware programs for fixtures and rigs that generate training data for robot autonomy, from initial build through validation.
What you'll do
- Own schedules, budgets, and cross-functional delivery for hardware programs that teach robots new tasks.
- Take programs from first build to validation without relying on an existing process.
- Work with hardware engineers and grow into ownership of robot build and manufacturing programs.
What they ask for
- Have run a hardware program at a large company through at least one 0-to-1 cycle.
- Be technically credible with engineers without needing to design hardware.
- Have applied experience from a large company at a small one.
- Be comfortable owning a program before success criteria are defined.
AI focus
The hardware programs produce training data behind robot autonomy and teach robots new tasks.
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