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Technical Product Manager

Genesis
Posted 17 days ago, valid for 21 days
Location

San Carlos, CA, US

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position involves owning the product roadmap for core Physical AI capabilities and translating research into customer-facing products.
  • Candidates should have a track record of shipping technical products and managing complex tradeoffs, requiring at least 5 years of relevant experience.
  • A deep technical understanding is essential for evaluating policies and participating in debugging sessions without needing to write code.
  • Exceptional written communication skills are necessary for creating specifications and decision logs, along with a preference for field evaluations over synthetic benchmarks.
  • The role also values prior experience in robotics or autonomy, and the salary for this position is competitive, reflecting the expertise required.

What You'll Do

  • Own the product roadmap for our core Physical AI capabilities, translating research breakthroughs into deployable, customer-facing products.

  • Sit at the intersection of research, robotics engineering, and field deployment to turn ambiguous technical tradeoffs into clear product decisions.

  • Define what "ready for a customer site" actually means by setting success metrics, reliability thresholds, and scope boundaries for each release.

  • Drive cross-functional alignment across distributed teams in research, engineering, and field operations.

What You'll Bring

  • Track record of shipping technical products where the primary challenge was managing complex tradeoffs, not filling out roadmap slides.

  • Deep enough technical understanding to read a policy evaluation, understand a sim-to-real gap, or participate in complex debug sessions and ask the right questions without needing to write the code yourself.

  • Strong bias toward the field over the whiteboard, preferring to evaluate a failed pick on a live customer floor over reading ten synthetic benchmark reports.

  • Exceptional written communication skills to write specs and decision logs that hold up when you're not in the room.

  • Comfort operating with incomplete information in a fast-moving, pre-paradigm field where answers aren't obvious.

  • Bonus: Prior experience in robotics, autonomy, or another domain where "works in the lab" and "works in the world" carry vastly different bars for success.




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