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Technical Program Manager, Hardware

Mind Robotics· Operations
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Palo AltoFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Mind Robotics is seeking a Hardware-focused Technical Program Manager to own the integrated hardware development plan and establish the program management practices that connect mechanical, electrical, compute, actuation, and sensing efforts to company goals for deployed robots on the factory floor.

Responsibilities

  • End-to-End Planning: Own the overall plan for development of our robot — including subsystem plans and investigations across mechanical, electrical, compute, actuation, and sensor systems.
  • Technical/Business Grounding: Engage directly in architecture and design discussions at a depth sufficient to stress-test engineering estimates and ensure alignment with business goals.
  • Guiding Technical Decisions: Keep technical decisions moving to closure — resolved at the team level where possible, escalated when they can't be.
  • Program Practice Design: Establish how hardware program management works at Mind: the planning rhythm that connects team-level work to org-level milestones and the artifacts that support both the individual engineer and leadership in prioritization and decision making.
  • Progress Tracking: Build the tracking layer that answers whether we are on or off track, drawn from the systems teams already work in. Monitor and report on key program metrics, and communicate status, blockers, and risks to leadership.
  • Risk and Issue Management: Identify and communicate technical, dependency, and resourcing risks early. Drive the process for mitigations and resolution.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in technical program management for hardware product development, ideally in robotics or other products that integrate mechanical, electrical, compute, actuation, and sensing systems.
  • Demonstrated success taking hardware projects from ideas to hardened, reliable products.
  • Strong fundamentals in engineering/science with the ability to engage meaningfully in architecture, planning, and systems integration discussions.
  • Experience managing programs spanning multiple interdependent domains along with dependencies on broader cross-functional teams such as software engineering and operations.
  • High sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity, and driven by an "engineering curiosity" to understand how the entire system works.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:End-to-End project planningArchitecture and design collaborationRisk and issue management
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Mind Robotics

Physical AI for the Real World

Mind Robotics is building intelligent robotics for industrial deployment. We believe the fastest path to broadly capable robots is through clearly defined, high-impact environments. We are starting where the need is most.

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