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. What You'll Be Building 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. What You'll Need to Succeed 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-industr