← All roles

Technical Program Manager

Skild AI· Operations
Apply on company site
San Mateo, CA$100k - $300kFull-timePosted today

About the role

Technical Program Manager responsible for delivering programs that scale Skild AI’s robots to new customer sites, applications, and robot types, including software releases, hardware builds, and customer deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of concurrent programs, from software releases to hardware builds and customer deployments, and hold teams to clear commitments and milestones.
  • Coordinate dependencies across engineering, product, and operations so work lands in the right order.
  • Surface schedule, technical, and resourcing risks early, drive mitigation, and present trade-offs to leadership with clear options.
  • Lead roadmap and quarterly planning with engineering leads so commitments match team capacity.
  • Run and refine lightweight, Agile-aligned processes for planning, release readiness, and retrospectives, tailored to each team’s size and maturity.
  • Build dashboards and run program reviews that give leadership a single, trusted view of status, risk, and capacity.
  • Write clear program updates, decision memos, and post-mortems.
  • Own and evolve how we use Linear and Notion so plans, dependencies, and decisions are easy to track and find.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of technical program management experience on hardware and/or software products.
  • Proven track record of shipping physical products end to end in robotics, consumer electronics, aerospace, automotive, or similar, including sustaining releases after launch.
  • Experience managing programs across multiple cross-functional teams with external dependencies.
  • Experience running programs that span hardware, firmware, software, and cloud services, with enough technical depth to challenge estimates and spot integration risks.
  • Experience establishing and scaling program management and Agile practices in a fast-paced, growing company.
  • Hands-on experience configuring Linear and Notion (or similar tools such as Jira and Confluence) and building dashboards leaders rely on.
  • Ability to build strong relationships with engineering, product, and executive leaders and drive decisions without direct authority.
  • Scripting or automation skills, or Scrum Master or PMP certification, are a plus.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
Skild AI logo

About Skild AI

Bringing AI into the physical world

Building general purpose robotic intelligence

omni-bodiedAIPhysical AIliquid-ai-recruiting-targetphysical-ai-funding-landscaperobotics
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Skild AI