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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Technical Project Manager, Robotics Software - **Company:** Slip Robotics - **Location:** Norcross, GA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Log Analysis, Scrum Methodology, Release Management, Robotic Automation Software, Software Engineering, Datadog, Robot Operating System, Mobile Robots - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=480792411bc7b250 ## About the Role * 5+ years in technical program management, release management, or engineering operations for software that ships to physical systems in robotics, automotive, aerospace, medical devices, or similar hardware/software products. * Experience owning a release process end to end: qualification criteria, go/no-go decisions, staged rollouts, and post-release monitoring. * Experience planning and coordinating testing that involves physical hardware and field environments. * Technical fluency to engage engineers on their terms: comfortable reading dashboards, logs, and failure data, and able to distinguish a real blocker from noise. An engineering background is a strong plus. * Demonstrated experience designing work flows and, more importantly, gaining adoption of the workflows from all stakeholders. * A track record of driving accountability across teams you don't manage, including delivering hard messages about readiness and slipping dates. Preferred: * Direct experience with autonomous mobile robots, AGVs, or fleet-deployed robotic systems. * Experience with fleet observability tooling such as telemetry dashboards, log analysis, failure classification. * Familiarity with functional-safety or regulated-industry release processes (ISO 13849, ISO 3691-4, or comparable). * Experience coordinating testing or deployments at customer sites, including customer-facing communication. * Experience in a startup or scale-up environment where you built the process rather than inherited it. ## Description * Tasking & workstream coordination. Keep the software team's backlog, sprint planning, and cross-team dependencies organized. Make status visible without making engineers write status reports. * Test planning & coordination. Own the test plan for each release: what gets tested, where (bench, test robots, pilot sites, customer sites), by whom, and against what pass/fail criteria. Coordinate robot time, site access, and field resources so testing never becomes the bottleneck by accident. * Release management. Drive releases through qualification to fleet deployment: entry/exit criteria, go/no-go reviews, staged rollout plans, rollback criteria, and clear communication to every team that needs to know what's shipping and when. * Post-release observation. Own the watch period after every release: monitoring fleet health metrics and failure rates, triaging regressions, routing field issues to the right owner, and closing the loop from field failure back into the backlog. * Cross-functional partnership. 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