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Salary: USD 175,000 - 215,000 / annual
Familiar Machines & Magic is building Physical AI platforms—embodied AI systems designed to form long-term, emotionally intelligent relationships with people. Founded by leaders from iRobot, Outrider, and Amazon, the company has collectively deployed over 50 million consumer robots and is now focused on creating artificial life to build a more caring world.
You will serve as Principal Technical Program Manager for AI and Software, owning end-to-end delivery of complex AI and software functionality across the company's AI and Software teams. This is a senior, highly cross-functional role operating at the intersection of AI, software, hardware, and product.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex AI and software functionality from research through production
- Build and maintain realistic program plans, schedules, and milestones, adapting as priorities and research outcomes shift
- Coordinate across disciplines and sub-teams (perception, AI, behaviors) and collaborate tightly with the Hardware TPM on shared dependencies
- Identify and manage technical risks and cross-team dependencies early, driving them to resolution
- Set the framework for how programs are planned, sequenced, and delivered; bring improvements to senior leadership
- Partner with engineering leadership and key stakeholders to align execution with the product roadmap
- Balance research uncertainty with delivery deadlines, helping teams make smart trade-offs
- Communicate status, risks, and changes clearly to stakeholders and leadership
You will report to the Head of Technical Program Management and operate with high autonomy, determining objectives and approach for the team's most critical programs and making framework-level decisions that set organizational direction.
Qualifications & Requirements:
- Extensive experience in technical program or project management, including deep experience delivering AI/ML products
- Track record leading multi-team programs where software, AI, and hardware come together, recognized by peers as a technical leader in AI/ML program delivery
- Strong, hands-on understanding of AI/ML systems: how models are built, trained, evaluated, and shipped in real products
- Experience managing programs through research uncertainty, where scope and outcomes aren't fixed up front
- Fluency with modern development and release practices (agile, release planning, risk and dependency management)
- Consumer robotics, embedded, or real-time systems experience (preferred)
The company values autonomy and ownership, systems thinking, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to distill complex technical detail into clear guidance. Empathy and steadiness under pressure are essential.
