Technical Project Manager, Robotics Software

Slip Robotics is at the forefront of robotic automation, delivering cutting-edge solutions that transform how businesses move goods. Our autonomous platforms redefine efficiency, reliability, and scalability in logistics. We’re a fast-growing team of innovators passionate about helping customers adopt automation seamlessly and successfully.

Our robotics software team ships code that drives real robots in real customer facilities. Getting a release from “merged” to “running reliably across the fleet” involves test planning, site coordination, qualification, staged deployment, and post-release monitoring. Your job is to own that machinery. As a TPM for Robotics Software, you run the operational backbone of the team: keeping tasking and priorities organized across concurrent workstreams, planning and coordinating testing from the simulation to live customer sites, driving releases through qualification and deployment, and managing post-release observation so problems are caught by us before they’re caught by customers. You’ll partner daily with the CTO, engineering leads, product, hardware, and deployment/field teams. This is not a ceremony-runner role. The right person is technical enough to read a failure table, ask the right question about a regression, push back on a release that isn’t ready, and organized enough that nobody has to wonder what state a release is in.

Responsibilities:

• 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. Be the connective tissue between software engineering and product, hardware, deployment, and customer-facing teams.
• Process that scales. Build lightweight, durable process that makes the next release cheaper than the last one and survives team growth.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity in an early-stage robotics company
• Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision
• Permissive time off policy
• A small team where your work has direct, visible impact on shipped products

Slip Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate candidates on the merits of their experience and their fit for the role. We welcome applicants from every background.