Technical Program Manager, Robust.AI
+ Stock options
Office located in San Carlos, CA
Industrial-grade cognitive engine for robotics
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Industrial-grade cognitive engine for robotics
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
Office located in San Carlos, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make robots work for people.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related/equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of experience managing complex technical projects with aggressive schedules
- Proficient at creating and tracking complex program schedules, managing issues and tracking bugs
- Able to take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop functional specifications, then deliver them in a timely manner
- Excellent leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Familiar with Agile program management
- Familiar with product development lifecycles
- You are also comfortable working in an early-stage startup environment, can collaborate with a team, and can pivot effectively
- You will have experience managing highly cross-functional technical products
What the job involves
- As a Technical Program Manager at Robust.AI , you will join a small, fast-paced team working to deploy, support, and expand the next generation of warehouse robotic systems
- This is a high-visibility role that will provide an opportunity to work with all commercial and technical groups within the Robust.AI organization
- You will possess a unique combination of well-developed cross-functional communication skills, problem-solving abilities, leadership, and organization
- Drive end-to-end execution of complex robotic programs for Robust’s product portfolio
- Drive and motivate the cross-functional team to deliver the product as per the requirements and timeline
- Drive accountability of cross-functional teams, including hardware, software, and deployment
- Manage requirements for deployment sites and communicate new requirements to the relevant engineering teams
- Responsible for creating project plans for deployment, including the schedule, timeline and resourcing
- Communicate program status regularly to the leadership team, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
Our take
Increasing complexity in supply chains and demand has meant manufacturing and logistics are incorporating more robotics and automation. These systems, however, can be cumbersome, costly, and brittle, meaning it’s difficult for them to adapt to new demand. Robust’s solution is a platform enabling rapid, no-code setup of robotic transport systems in warehouses to help transport materials and tools.
The idea is that these robots work with, not instead of, human workforces - and it’s just the first slate of applications for Robust’s deeper tech. The aim is to develop an all-purpose cognitive engine that will produce robots that can make decisions in open-ended environments.
The potential applications for a common-sense cognitive platform are sweeping, even if Robust’s beginnings are fairly modest. It’s planning to build out its own datasets and pursue strategic alliances with companies across different verticals - it’s already in conversation with iRobot for application of its AI layer in homes, for example.
With the heavy-hitting founding team of robotics veterans at the helm, Robust is making painstaking and careful progress in what is growing to be a multi-billion dollar global robotics industry. It will be interesting to see how its tech progresses.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Oct 2020
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $42.5m
Company benefits
- Generous benefits, stock options and huge potential for growth
- Strong startup (and fun) culture
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Flexible vacation and sick leave practices
- Paid parental leave
- Optional bi-monthly COVID-19 testing
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Anthony Jules
(CEO)Worked as Principal at robotics company Jules Studios, before serving as COO and VP of Product at Redwood Robotics, and then Head of Product & Program Management at X, the moonshot factory. Ultimately spent time as CTO/Advisor for Formant.
Rodney Brooks
(CTO)Previously co-founded Lucid, iRobot (sold to Uber), and Rethink Robotics, and for the latter two also served as CTO. Additionally spent nearly three decades as the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT.
Mohamed Amer
(Chief Science Officer)Completed a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University, before spending time at SRI International as a Senior Computer Scientist and then Senior Technical Manager.
Henrik Christensen
(Co-founder)Holds the Qualcomm Chancellor's Chair in Robot Systems at UC San Diego, as well as directing the Contextual Robotics Institute; also is a Distinguished Professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Spent a decade as co- Editor in Chief covering robotics at Now Publishers, and also co-founded ROBO Global.
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