Engineering Program Manager - Robotics

About the Role

At Watney, the Engineering Program Manager owns the hardware programs that teach our robots new tasks - the fixtures and rigs that generate the training data behind robot autonomy.

This is a 0-to-1 role, and every program you run touches the robot itself. You build the schedule, the budget, and the cross-functional coordination starting with the first task.

What You’ll Do

• Own schedule, budget, and cross-functional delivery for the hardware programs that teach robots new tasks.
• Take a program from first build to validated, with no existing process to lean on.
• Work directly with the engineers designing and building the hardware - enough to earn their respect, not to do their job.
• Grow into owning robot build and manufacturing programs as they need one.

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

• Have run a hardware program at a large company through at least one 0-to-1 cycle.
• Are technical enough that engineers trust your calls, without needing to design the hardware yourself.
• Took what a big company taught you and proved it at a small one.
• Are comfortable owning a program before anyone has defined what "done" looks like.