Senior Technical Program Manager, Robotics

Lila Sciences • Cambridge, MA

11h

About The Position

You will be the program owner for Physical AI — the shared infrastructure our autonomous labs run on. Working across multiple engineering teams, you'll turn the platform roadmap into a sequenced, dependency-aware plan, own the reliability and scalability programs — SLOs, launch readiness, capacity planning — and be the clear line to the teams who depend on the platform. This is an influence-without-authority role: your leverage comes from rigor, judgment, and trust.

Requirements

• 4–8 years of technical program management for platform or infrastructure software across multiple teams.
• Managing cross-team dependencies, critical paths, and risk registers on multi-quarter programs.
• Hands-on with SLOs, launch readiness, capacity planning, or release/incident processes.
• Enough depth to engage backend, platform/SRE, and QA engineers on real trade-offs.
• Proven ability to drive delivery and hard decisions across teams you don't manage.
• You translate fluidly between engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• A systems-thinking background and program experience in regulated, safety-critical domains — aerospace, manufacturing, or healthcare/life sciences.
• Exposure to validation/V&V regimes (GAMP 5 / FDA CSA, DO-178C) or enterprise-to-shop-floor integration (ISA-95) a plus.
• Robotics, hardware-in-the-loop, or lab/scientific computing environments.
• Observability, on-call, and incident management practice.
• Programs spanning data pipelines, capacity/cost planning, or ML/AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Physical AI Platform roadmap: sequence delivery across teams, with clear milestones and owners.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies: map the critical path, surface blockers, and unblock work before it slips.
• Own reliability & scalability programs: stand up SLOs, launch-readiness reviews, and capacity planning.
• Track risk end to end: maintain a living risk register and drive incident follow-through to closure.
• Align stakeholders: keep the teams who depend on the platform current on scope and trade-offs.
• Coordinate releases: run release and change coordination so launches are predictable.
• Raise operational rigor: establish the rituals — status, escalation paths, decision records — that keep delivery honest.

Benefits

• Competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• An educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• A company subsidized lunch program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed