Technical Program Manager

AIM builds autonomy for the real world—rugged, safety-critical robots that move earth on jobsites globally. We fuse software, electronics, mechanics, perception, and mission-critical infrastructure to replace manual, high-risk tasks with intelligent machines that redefine construction.

About the role

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you’ll orchestrate the end-to-end lifecycle of AIM’s most critical cross-functional programs. You’ll drive initiatives that span hardware, robotics, autonomy, and cloud infrastructure, ensuring our autonomy stack performs safely and consistently across real-world environments—varying terrain, climates, materials, and operating conditions. You’ll partner closely with engineering, field operations, OEM partners, and customers to turn ambiguity into strategy and strategy into execution.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive complex programs spanning hardware, robotics, autonomy, and cloud infrastructure, owning the roadmap, vision, tenets, success metrics, and long-term goals.
• Translate ambiguous problems into clear requirements and orchestrate delivery across multiple engineering teams, working backward from customers, field operations, and OEM partners.
• Dive deep into system architecture—hardware interfaces, perception pipelines, control systems, on-machine compute, system health, and data flows—to identify risks and ensure trade-offs align with long-term consequences.
• Manage the full lifecycle of multi-team programs: requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Drive critical path decisions, mitigate risks proactively, clear blockers, coordinate dependencies, and escalate with sound judgment.
• Build and evolve mechanisms for predictable program delivery, including ORRs, CoEs, design reviews, cross-team schedules, and risk frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineering, field ops, deployment teams, OEM partners, vendors, and customers across global time zones, harmonizing conflicting viewpoints and driving alignment.
• Communicate at all levels, from technical engineering discussions to executive-level program narratives.
• Ensure programs uphold the highest bars for safety, availability, testability, serviceability, and customer readiness, identifying systemic gaps and driving process improvements.
• Continuously raise engineering quality and process rigor across teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent hands-on technical experience.
• 7+ years of technical program management, engineering management, robotics deployment, or equivalent cross-functional experience.
• Proven success driving complex, cross-disciplinary engineering programs from inception to delivery.
• Ability to dive deeply into technical system design and communicate trade-offs, risks, and decisions clearly.
• Experience working directly with hardware, firmware, robotics, or mission-critical software.
• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, reduce complexity, and deliver predictable outcomes across multiple teams.
• Strong judgment and experience managing programs with competing priorities, tight timelines, and high operational risk.
• Hands-on experience with engineering process development—sprints, ORRs, incident management, testing, QA, or deployment readiness.
• Experience working with suppliers, vendors, or cross-organizational partners.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites, OEM partners, and global deployments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with autonomous systems, robotics, industrial controls, heavy machinery, or real-world hardware-software systems.
• Prior experience managing programs involving GNSS/INS, LiDAR, perception systems, real-time embedded systems, or machine safety.
• Demonstrated success running high-risk field deployments or customer-facing technical operations.
• Strong ability to simplify complex systems and drive architectural clarity across teams.
• Ability to influence system architecture, engineering processes, and organizational mechanisms at scale.
• Experience managing OEM partnerships or government/enterprise programs with high compliance requirements.
• Mastery of modern program mechanisms: PR/FAQ, 6-pagers, risk matrices, design reviews, and operational readiness frameworks.

What you’ll stand out for

• Operating seamlessly from the field (inside a dozer cab) to whiteboard sessions with principal engineers.
• Respected by engineers for technical judgment and by leadership for crisp decision-making.
• Simplifying, clarifying, and driving alignment in high-ambiguity, high-stakes environments.
• Making teams faster, better, and more aligned through mechanisms, not heroics.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and life insurance.
• Travel opportunities across the U.S., Europe, Australia, Africa, South America, and emerging markets.
• High-impact role with global visibility and influence across engineering, product, and operations.
• Growth opportunities in a rapidly scaling, mission-driven company.

Pay

$150K – $200K