Technical Program Manager, Safety

Bedrock Robotics Inc • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Bedrock is hiring its first dedicated Safety Technical Program Manager to establish the execution structure needed to roll out autonomy capabilities quickly while maintaining rigorous safety practices. The role owns program execution for safety, systems engineering, and state estimation work supporting autonomous heavy equipment in real-world operations. It is a hands-on individual contributor position that aligns engineering, safety, autonomy, hardware, and field operations through influence, structure, and communication. The role connects safety strategy with technical delivery by ensuring requirements are traceable, dependencies visible, and risks surfaced early.

The Technical Program Manager will plan and execute safety and systems programs across the autonomy roadmap, from requirements through validated field deployment. The role supports reusable safety requirements across platforms and sites, builds validation plans across simulation and on-site testing, manages cross-functional dependencies and tradeoffs, and leads reviews, risk and change management, and program reporting. Field signals are translated into prioritized engineering work and tracked through resolution.

Requirements

• 7+ years of technical program management experience, including 2+ years leading programs involving safety-critical or high-integrity systems.
• Domain experience in robotics, autonomous systems, aerospace, or another physical-world safety-critical domain, with a working understanding of the software, firmware, and hardware stacks behind real-world autonomy.
• Working familiarity with a functional safety standard such as ISO 26262 or IEC 61508 and how it shapes program structure, evidence, and release gates.
• Working fluency in statistics and probability sufficient to critically interpret validation results and reliability metrics.
• Understanding of the rigor, validation, and cross-functional coordination required to operate reliably in the physical world.
• Track record of managing complex, cross-functional programs under ambiguity and taking systems from concept to production.
• Ability to operate at a deep technical level and distill complex risks and interdependencies into aligned, actionable plans for engineers and executives.
• Strong dependency, risk, and change-management instincts in environments where safety and schedule are both non-negotiable.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Startup experience is strongly preferred.
• A bias toward building structure that helps an organization scale through complexity.

Responsibilities

• Own planning and strategic execution for the safety and systems portions of the autonomy roadmap, from requirements through validated field deployment.
• Partner with safety and systems engineering to support traceable, reusable safety requirements that are integrated into roadmaps from inception, including hazard analysis, validation evidence, and release readiness.
• Build and maintain validation plans spanning simulation and on-site testing, ensuring system-level changes are verified before reaching customers.
• Map and actively manage dependencies and tradeoffs across systems, hardware, software, state estimation, and safety, weighing safety and schedule impacts and identifying critical-path single points of failure early.
• Drive program reviews, risk management, and change management for multidisciplinary, safety-critical initiatives.
• Report roadmap health, delivery status, and safety implications to support executive decisions and customer-facing discussions.
• Translate field signals into prioritized engineering work and track issues through resolution.

What This Job Offers

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