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# Senior Technical Program Manager, Robotics

- **Company:** Lila Sciences, Inc.
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $192,000.0 - $238,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Scientific Computating, AI Infrastructure, Backend, DO-178B, Data Pipelines, GXP
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8f60e23cefbf9be6

## About the Role

* Platform program management: 4-8 years of technical program management for platform or infrastructure software across multiple teams.
 * Dependency & risk mastery: managing cross-team dependencies, critical paths, and risk registers on multi-quarter programs.
 * Reliability fluency: hands-on with SLOs, launch readiness, capacity planning, or release/incident processes.
 * Technical credibility: enough depth to engage backend, platform/SRE, and QA engineers on real trade-offs.
 * Influence without authority: proven ability to drive delivery and hard decisions across teams you don't manage.
 * Clear communication: you translate fluidly between engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Bonus Points For

 * Systems engineering & regulated-industry programs: a systems-thinking background and program experience in regulated, safety-critical domains - aerospace, manufacturing, or healthcare/life sciences. Exposure to validation/V&V regimes (GAMP 5 / FDA CSA, DO-178C) or enterprise-to-shop-floor integration (ISA-95) a plus.
 * Scientific or lab-automation context: robotics, hardware-in-the-loop, or lab/scientific computing environments.
 * SRE-adjacent depth: observability, on-call, and incident management practice.
 * Data-platform exposure: programs spanning data pipelines, capacity/cost planning, or ML/AI infrastructure.

## Description

* Drive the Physical AI Platform roadmap: sequence delivery across teams, with clear milestones and owners.
 * Coordinate cross-team dependencies: map the critical path, surface blockers, and unblock work before it slips.
 * Own reliability & scalability programs: stand up SLOs, launch-readiness reviews, and capacity planning.
 * Track risk end to end: maintain a living risk register and drive incident follow-through to closure.
 * Align stakeholders: keep the teams who depend on the platform current on scope and trade-offs.
 * Coordinate releases: run release and change coordination so launches are predictable.
 * Raise operational rigor: establish the rituals - status, escalation paths, decision records - that keep delivery honest.


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