{"id":922154,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pickle-robot-senior-technical-program-manager-robotics","title":"Senior Technical Program Manager - Robotics","company":{"id":176523,"name":"Pickle Robot","domain":"picklerobot.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/pickle-robot","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":12,"ghost_share":0.25,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":92,"computed_at":"2026-10-06T05:45:30Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Charlestown, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":155000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Asana","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"Linear","optional":true},{"name":"Physical AI","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-07T19:46:06Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-07","last_verified_at":"2026-10-07T00:09:49Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":91,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":90},"description":"About Us\nAt Pickle Robot, we're on a mission to automate global supply chains with Physical AI. Our robots work alongside warehouse teams to unload trucks and containers - one of the toughest, most understaffed jobs in logistics - making the work safer, faster, and more efficient for the people doing it. Loading trucks comes next, followed by the Dill Autonomy Engine: generalized autonomy that will eventually orchestrate robots across entire logistics processes.\nPickle is looking for an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our Software Engineering organization and drive execution on the complex, cross-functional initiatives that power our autonomous robotics platform.\nThis role is ideal for someone with a strong technical foundation - ideally a former software engineer or someone with deep experience partnering with engineering teams. You'll work closely with software engineering, product management, robotics, firmware, and hardware teams to keep projects aligned, surface risks early, and hit critical milestones, delivering high-quality software that powers Pickle's robots in production warehouses.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex software engineering programs across Pickle's robotics platform, coordinating cross-functional initiatives involving Software, Robotics, Firmware, Product, Hardware, Manufacturing, and Deployment teams\nPartner closely with engineering leadership to establish priorities, define project plans, drive execution against key milestones, and improve predictability and overall software delivery\nIdentify program risks, dependencies, and technical trade-offs, proactively drive resolution, and communicate status to stakeholders\nFacilitate planning activities including roadmap reviews, sprint planning, release planning, and program reviews\nDrive alignment across engineering teams while balancing changing priorities in a fast-paced startup environment\nImprove program execution and help establish best practices for technical program management - building scalable processes, tracking mechanisms, and communication frameworks as the engineering organization grows\nWhat You'll Bring\n5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or Technical Project Management supporting software engineering organizations\nStrong technical background, ideally with prior experience as a Software Engineer or in another highly technical engineering role\nProven track record managing complex, multidisciplinary projects from conception to deployment, including coordinating software releases across multiple engineering teams\nExperience working closely with backend, infrastructure, robotics, embedded, or distributed systems engineering teams\nStrong understanding of Agile software development methodologies and modern software delivery practices\nAbility to understand technical architecture, identify dependencies, and facilitate discussions around technical trade-offs\nExcellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to influence across multiple engineering disciplines and manage multiple concurrent programs with exceptional attention to detail\nComfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment with evolving priorities and ambiguity\nWilling and able to work from our Charlestown office at least 3 days per week\nNice to have:\nFamiliarity with Jira, Linear, Asana, or similar engineering planning tools","description_format":"text","description_chars":3429,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Transportation & Logistics","Supply Chain"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-15T02:01:24Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 9","filings_12m":9,"filings_prev_12m":10,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":147500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:08:04+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":45,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.757,"p_room":0.6,"age_days":90,"expected_fill_days":92,"reasons":["conf:0","win:late","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-06T05:45:30Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pickle-robot-senior-technical-program-manager-robotics","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pickle-robot-senior-technical-program-manager-robotics.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-07T02:22:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3963,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1037,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-08T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":176523},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=176523"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpickle-robot-senior-technical-program-manager-robotics"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpickle-robot-senior-technical-program-manager-robotics"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpickle-robot-senior-technical-program-manager-robotics"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/pickle-robot-senior-technical-program-manager-robotics\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpickle-robot-senior-technical-program-manager-robotics"}]}