Senior Technical Program Manager (Robotics)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Program Manager (Robotics) (Physical AI): Owning the roadmap and operational execution of shared infrastructure for autonomous scientific labs with an accent on cross-team delivery, reliability, scalability, and release coordination. Focus on sequencing dependency-aware programs, establishing SLOs and capacity plans, managing end-to-end risk, and driving decisions across engineering teams without direct authority.

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

Salary: $192,000–$238,000 USD annually, plus bonus potential and early-stage equity.

Company

hirify.global is building AI-powered scientific systems and autonomous laboratory infrastructure to accelerate discoveries in medicine, materials, and energy.

What you will do

• Own and drive the Physical AI Platform roadmap across multiple engineering teams.
• Sequence milestones, clarify ownership, and coordinate cross-team dependencies and critical paths.
• Lead reliability and scalability programs covering SLOs, launch readiness, and capacity planning.
• Maintain risk registers and ensure incident follow-through through resolution.
• Align platform stakeholders on scope, trade-offs, status, and delivery risks.
• Coordinate releases and establish operational rituals, escalation paths, and decision records.

Requirements

• 4–8 years of technical program management experience for platform or infrastructure software across multiple teams.
• Experience managing cross-team dependencies, critical paths, and risk registers for multi-quarter programs.
• Hands-on familiarity with SLOs, launch readiness, capacity planning, release processes, or incident management.
• Technical credibility when working with backend, platform/SRE, and QA engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to influence delivery and make difficult decisions without direct authority.
• Clear communication skills for translating between engineering and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Systems engineering or program experience in regulated and safety-critical domains such as aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, or life sciences.
• Exposure to GAMP 5, FDA CSA, DO-178C, or ISA-95.
• Experience with robotics, hardware-in-the-loop, scientific computing, or lab automation.
• SRE-adjacent experience with observability, on-call operations, or incident management.
• Experience with data pipelines, capacity and cost planning, or ML/AI infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup-speed environment focused on scientific discovery and high-impact engineering.
• Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Benefits include employer-paid life and disability insurance, flexible time off, company holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Educational assistance, commuter benefits, bike-share memberships for office-based employees, and a subsidized lunch program are provided.
• International full-time employees receive regionally tailored benefits.