- Robot type
- Industrial Automation
- Location
- TorranceCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Product
- Posted
- Sep 10, 2026
- Salary
- $155,500–$213,810 a year
Staff Technical Program Manager, Machine Development
Job description
Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.
Machine Development operates at the intersection of complex hardware, software, manufacturing, and operations, where successful execution depends on many teams moving together against shared technical and business outcomes. The Staff Technical Program Manager exists to create the clarity, structure, and operating discipline needed to make that happen.
This role drives the integrated execution of Machine Development programs by translating complex and often ambiguous objectives into clear plans, priorities, ownership, milestones, and decisions.
Success in this role means Machine Development executes more predictably, problems are…
Job responsibilities
- Own integrated program schedules, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, and high-level development & execution plans.
- Identify and actively manage program risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.
- Build and continuously improve scalable business processes, operating cadences, tools, and program controls.
- Drive cross-functional execution including triage and coordination such as change requests.
- Drive action -item ownership, escalation, decision-making, and closure.
- Enable successful change and configuration management.
- Provide clear program status, performance, tradeoffs, and recovery plans to stakeholders and leadership.
- Support coordination of technical and operational readiness for major releases, builds, qualifications, and deployments.
Job requirements
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.
- 6+ years of technical program, engineering, manufacturing, or product development experience.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional technical programs.
- Strong program planning, scheduling, risk management, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate ambiguous technical problems into clear plans, owners, milestones, and decisions.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication with technical teams and senior leadership.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced hardware development and manufacturing environment.
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