Senior Technical Program Manager, Robotics

Lila Sciences
Cambridge
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 192,000 - 238,000 annuallyFunction: Program & Project Management (PMO)Experience: 4-8 yearsSkills: ["Cross-team coordination","Risk management","Critical path management","Influence without authority","Communication"]

Own program execution for the Physical AI Platform that autonomous labs rely on. Sequence the platform roadmap across engineering teams, coordinate critical-path dependencies, and drive reliability and scalability initiatives including SLOs, launch readiness, and capacity planning. Maintain an end-to-end risk register, run release/change coordination, and increase delivery operational rigor through escalation paths and decision records. Influence stakeholders without direct authority.

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Senior Technical Program Manager, Robotics

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Job Summary

Own program execution for the Physical AI Platform that autonomous labs rely on. Sequence the platform roadmap across engineering teams, coordinate critical-path dependencies, and drive reliability and scalability initiatives including SLOs, launch readiness, and capacity planning. Maintain an end-to-end risk register, run release/change coordination, and increase delivery operational rigor through escalation paths and decision records. Influence stakeholders without direct authority.
Location: Cambridge
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Program & Project Management (PMO)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive the Physical AI Platform roadmap by sequencing delivery across teams with milestones and owners.
  • •Coordinate cross-team dependencies by mapping the critical path, surfacing blockers, and unblocking work.
  • •Own reliability and scalability programs including SLOs, launch-readiness reviews, and capacity planning.
  • •Track risk end to end with a living risk register and drive incident follow-through to closure.
  • •Coordinate releases via release and change coordination to make launches predictable.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 192,000 - 238,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveParental LeaveLife InsuranceDisability InsuranceCommuter BenefitsMeal Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •4–8 years of technical program management for platform or infrastructure software across multiple teams.
  • •Experience managing cross-team dependencies, critical paths, and multi-quarter risk registers.
  • •Hands-on reliability fluency including SLOs, launch readiness, capacity planning, and/or release/incident processes.
  • •Technical credibility to collaborate with backend, platform/SRE, and QA engineers on trade-offs.
  • •Ability to influence without authority and communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience:4-8 yearsPlatform/infrastructure softwareRoboticsSREReliability engineeringRegulated/safety-critical domainsData/ML infrastructure
Skills:Cross-team coordinationRisk managementCritical path managementInfluence without authorityCommunication
Languages:English

Company Brief

Lila Sciences
Develops AI-driven platforms to accelerate drug discovery and biological research by integrating machine learning with chemical and biological data to predict molecular properties, streamline candidate selection, and enable faster therapeutic development.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
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