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Research Technical Program Manager, Robotics

DYNA Robotics· Research
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Redwood City, CAFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

We’re looking for a Research Technical Program Manager with a strong research background in robotics to help guide and coordinate our research portfolio, aligning strategies with leadership and bridging research with engineering and product.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain a complete view of the portfolio. Track each project’s objectives, hypotheses, results, milestones, risks, and upcoming decisions.
  • Assess progress with researchers. Evaluate the strength of results, separate meaningful advances from open questions, and surface technical bottlenecks early.
  • Connect work across teams. Spot shared challenges, dependencies, and complementary approaches, and find opportunities to bring separate projects together.
  • Partner with the Chief Research Officer on strategy. Synthesize findings, develop recommendations, and support decisions on research direction, priorities, resourcing, and new opportunities.
  • Turn strategy into research plans. Help teams define tractable questions, useful evaluation criteria, and milestones that reflect both scientific uncertainty and organizational goals.
  • Drive decisions and follow-through. Lead research reviews, clarify tradeoffs, document decisions, and make sure every team has clear ownership and next steps.
  • Keep leadership informed. Deliver concise, evidence-based updates that give an accurate picture of progress and show where leadership’s attention is needed.
  • Bridge research and application. Work with engineering and product teams to identify when promising findings are ready for further development and what validation remains.

Qualifications

  • A strong research background in robotics, shown through original research, publications, or substantial contributions in an industry research setting.
  • Deep expertise in one or more areas such as robot learning, manipulation, perception, planning, control, embodied AI, or autonomous systems.
  • Ability to engage deeply with technical work: questioning assumptions, interpreting experimental results, and exercising sound judgment beyond your own specialty.
  • Experience coordinating complex research efforts across multiple researchers, teams, or disciplines.
  • Strategic thinking: you can connect individual projects to broader research goals and articulate the implications of different choices.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and changing evidence, and the judgment to adapt plans as the research evolves.
  • Clear communication, strong organization, and the ability to build trust and influence across teams.

Skills

Required:Robotics research leadershipStrategic portfolio planning
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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