Principal Technical Program Manager, Fauna

About This Role

This Principal Technical Program Manager role leads the robot software release program for Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company. The role involves owning the end-to-end software release process, from planning to deployment, ensuring that new features and skills are delivered effectively to improve existing products. It suits a leader who can build planning mechanisms, drive execution excellence, and manage major launches for robot software.

Responsibilities

• Own the robot software release program, including cadence, go/no-go criteria, staged rollouts, and rollback decisions
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, science, and manufacturing programs to ensure robot software is ready to ship on time and with high quality
• Build roadmaps, dependency tracking, and status reporting for the software organization, and own the integration plan for major launches and demos
• Define release quality bars with QA and engineering, and use test results, telemetry, and field reports to decide when to ship
• Set the multi-year plan for how Fauna ships robot software as the fleet and the organization grow, and build long-term mechanisms
• Find and fix recurring problems across teams by improving processes, and handle escalations across the program
• Present program status, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership

Requirements

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules
• Experience leading software release programs for products that run on physical devices, such as robots, vehicles, consumer electronics, or connected home devices
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience

Nice to have:

• Experience bringing machine learning models from research into a shipping product
• Experience aligning software releases with hardware development stages (EVT, DVT, PVT)
• Experience with release engineering, CI/CD, or hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Experience running releases for developer-facing products such as SDKs or APIs
• Experience with over-the-air update delivery and staged fleet rollouts
• Experience shipping software on embedded Linux or on robotics frameworks such as ROS 2

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)