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Salary: USD 201,000 - 261,000 / annual
Agility Robotics is seeking a Staff Hardware Technical Program Manager to drive cross-functional execution and alignment for next-generation humanoid robot hardware platforms. The company deploys commercially-operated humanoids in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers to handle physically demanding and repetitive tasks.
In this role, you will own the complete hardware product development lifecycle from early concept and product definition through detailed design, prototype builds (EVT/DVT/PVT), validation, commercialization, and General Availability. You serve as the connective tissue across multidisciplinary teams spanning core engineering, operations, go-to-market, and service organizations.
Key responsibilities include:
**End-to-End Hardware Lifecycle Ownership:** Manage integrated execution planning and delivery tracking across all development stages. Define, track, and manage the integrated master schedule, dependencies, hardware build readiness, and critical path milestones across hardware, firmware, and release streams. Proactively identify program risks, long-lead component bottlenecks, resourcing gaps, and technical trade-offs; drive mitigation strategies.
**Cross-Functional Engineering Integration:** Serve as the central coordination point across Product, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Firmware, and Software teams. Facilitate interface alignment, system-level trade-off discussions, and structured technical review cycles. Coordinate prototype build bring-up, joint HW/FW integration, and system validation testing cycles.
**Operations, Supply Chain & Manufacturing Bridge:** Partner with New Product Introduction, Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing teams to track component readiness, tooling leads, vendor deliverables, and factory build execution. Ensure Design for Excellence (DFM/DFA/DFT) requirements are integrated into early design phases. Manage program-level tracking for BOM health, unit economics, tooling capital expenditure, and vendor execution dependencies.
**Commercialization & Go-to-Market:** Partner with Commercial, Marketing, Services, and Field Operations teams to align delivery schedules with launch readiness and commercial milestones. Drive regular operational reviews, maintain program dashboards, and communicate status, trade-offs, and critical escalations to executive leadership.
**Execution Rigor & Process Scalability:** Build and refine scalable hardware governance, gate-review processes, and execution frameworks tailored for rapid scaling. Conduct post-build retrospectives to elevate predictable execution across development cycles.
**Requirements:**
- 10+ years of technical program management experience leading complex hardware products through full lifecycle development (Concept to Volume Production / GA)
- Strong deep-dive familiarity with Systems Engineering, Architecture development, HW, SW and test; demonstrated track record working with product requirements and managing early development
- Proven success collaborating across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing ops, and GTM teams
- Managed end-to-end supply chain lifecycle, partnering with JDMs, OEMs, CMs, and component vendors on complex systems, subsystems, and long-lead hardware procurement
- Strong ability to bring structure to greenfield/ambiguous environments, resolve priority conflicts, and influence cross-functional decisions without explicit authority
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to summarize complex technical risks to executive stakeholders
