Technical Program Manager (Robotics & Autonomy) in San Diego

Energy Jobline ZR
San Diego, US
On-site

Job Description

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We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

Job Description

We are looking for a deeply committed Technical Program Manager who has successfully shipped cutting-edge AI models in aerospace & robotics, managed relationships with customers, has exceptional software engineering management knowledge, and thrives in fast-paced, unstructured environments.

What you’ll do

  • Contribute hands-on to AI model and product development, including pretraining, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment
  • Translate product goals into actionable roadmaps
  • Plan and execute product development initiatives, owning timelines and delivery
  • Influence org structure and hiring
  • Mentor team members

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of experience in technical program management or applied AI/ML roles, ideally in high-growth startups or fast-paced research orgs.
  • Expertise with one or more of computer vision, vision- models, or foundation model development.
  • Experience working with academic / PhD-level researchers
  • Strong track record of turning ambiguous technical goals into successfully shipped models, features, tools, or systems.
  • : 1+ years robotics experience

Our team

Our team is composed of AI pioneers and leaders from Google DeepMind, Shield AI, Caltech & MIT. Several of us are repeat founders, with deep commercialization insights across multiple enterprise segments. We enjoy long, deep ideations around entirely unexplored AI use cases in autonomy.

Who you are

  • Learn-it-all, not know-it-all: you have an innate curiosity for all things intellectual, and it’s something you can’t turn off. You obsess over finer details others miss.
  • High intensity: you thrive in a high-stakes environment, and are driven by an innate obsession, not by others.
  • Fast learner: you gravitate toward learning new things, and often find yourself learning more quickly than everyone around you.
  • Driven by discomfort: you enjoy leaving your comfort zone and challenging yourself
  • Creative: track record of solving hard problems with solutions worthy of academic papers
  • Educator: you take pride in your ability to communicate complex topics clearly and have excellent speaking and writing skills.
  • Zero ego: you don’t just take feedback, but see it as a gift. You don’t wait until feedback is given, but solicit it with every opportunity.
  • Founder mentality: you roll up your sleeves to help solve the most pressing problem on a given day, even if it has nothing to do with this job post.

Location

Bay Area, Los Angeles, or San Diego

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Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

AIMLcomputer visionvision-modelsfoundation model developmentmentoringcommunicationwriting skillsaerospaceroboticsautonomy

Salary

$150,000 - $250,000

year

Level

mid

Posted

3/28/2026

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