Technical Program Manager, Actuators

About This Role

This role focuses on owning actuator development and integration, from system goals through production readiness, within the Robotics team. The actuator program is cross-functional, spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, harnessing, controls, test, reliability, manufacturing, and supply chain. The ideal candidate will translate cross-functional decisions into clear scope, executable milestones, and timely decisions, helping the team converge on the right technical plan, surfacing risks early, and delivering reliable actuator systems on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Drive actuator programs end-to-end, aligning scope, milestones, interfaces, dependencies, and exit criteria across engineering teams
• Drive scope lock and technical convergence for sprints
• Coordinate actuator development across motors, gears, sensing, electronics, and firmware
• Align the electrical and mechanical interfaces that connect actuators to the broader robot
• Lead validation planning from early prototypes through engineering validation, reliability testing, and production readiness
• Drive tradeoff decisions across cost, schedule, and lead time by collaborating cross-functionally and quantifying impact to meet program deliverables
• Establish effective mechanisms for technical reviews, change control, design releases, decision tracking, and manufacturing readiness
• Surface risks early and drive decisions, owners, and actions to closure

Requirements

• Led complex electromechanical hardware programs from development through manufacturing
• Equally comfortable reasoning about an actuator’s internal architecture and how it integrates into the larger system through PCBAs, connectors, cables, etc.
• Can work effectively across ME, EE, firmware, interconnecting harnesses, controls, test, reliability, manufacturing, and supply chain
• Understand hardware development realities including prototype cycles, long-lead parts, suppliers, testing, design changes, and production ramp

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)