Senior Technical Program Manager, Robotics

Your Impact at LILA

You will be the program owner for Physical AI — the shared infrastructure our autonomous labs run on. Working across multiple engineering teams, you’ll turn the platform roadmap into a sequenced, dependency-aware plan, own the reliability and scalability programs — SLOs, launch readiness, capacity planning — and be the clear line to the teams who depend on the platform. This is an influence-without-authority role: your leverage comes from rigor, judgment, and trust.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.

$192,000 — $238,000 USD

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• employer-paid life and disability insurance
• flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• paid parental leave
• an educational assistance program
• commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• a company subsidized lunch program

• Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region.
• USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.
  
  -based positions; international salaries are set to local market.

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence to solve humankind’s greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.

LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more a.ai.

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