Principal Product Manager , Fauna

Amazon • New York, NY

4d • $197,900 - $267,800 • Onsite

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

• Experience with DFx (Design for cost, test, manufacturing)
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• 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

• MBA in engineering, statistics, computer science, operations research, business analytics, information systems or equivalent
• 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

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal