Principal Product Manager - Tech, Fauna
About The Position
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager – Technical to own and drive the product vision, roadmap, and execution for a next-generation robot platform. This product is designed to validate safety-certifiable architecture and cost-optimized design, bridging our current developer platform and mass-market product. In this role, you will lead cross-functional coordination across hardware engineering, software, safety, science, and operations to deliver a platform that achieves aggressive cost targets while meeting safety certification requirements for unattended autonomous operation in homes. You will define product requirements, manage trade-offs between cost, performance, and safety, and own the end-to-end product lifecycle from first builds through large-scale home deployments and data collection. The ideal candidate thrives at the intersection of hardware, software, and safety-critical systems, with experience shipping consumer or prosumer electronics at scale and a strong technical foundation to drive architecture decisions across compute, sensors, and mechanical design.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience technical product management
- 10+ years of product management experience in hardware or hardware + software products
- 7+ years of experience shipping consumer electronics, robotics, or safety-critical systems through full development lifecycle (concept → EVT → DVT → PVT → mass production)
- Technical background (CS, EE, ME, or related engineering degree) with ability to drive architecture decisions
- Experience managing BOM cost-down programs with aggressive targets
Nice To Haves
- Experience working directly with Engineers on product enhancements
- Experience in project management methodologies, business analysis, or process improvement
- Experience with safety-certifiable product development (ISO 13482, IEC 61508, or comparable functional safety standards)
- Experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, or other embodied AI products
- Background in compute platform selection and optimization (SoC trade-offs, edge AI)
- Experience with sensor suite architecture decisions (ToF, stereo vision, IMU, etc.)
- Track record delivering complex electromechanical products at 1,000+ unit scale
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning deployment constraints on edge devices
Responsibilities
- Own the next-generation platform product roadmap end-to-end: requirements definition, architecture trade-offs, milestone planning, and delivery from engineering validation through mass deployment
- Drive BOM optimization to achieve aggressive cost targets through compute platform decisions, sensor suite rationalization, and DFM execution
- Define and manage product requirements for safety-certifiable autonomous operation, including hazard analysis and functional safety concepts
- Lead cross-functional coordination across hardware (mechanical, electrical, compute), software (runtime, autonomy stack), science (locomotion, manipulation, navigation), and safety/compliance teams
- Translate learnings from current developer platform into architecture decisions for the next-generation product
- Define success metrics for large scale deployments
- Drive trade-off decisions between weight, cost, sensor fidelity, compute capability, and safety margins
- Partner with software teams to ensure the autonomy stack fits within a product-ready compute footprint
- Ensure architectural decisions de-risk the downstream programs
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
