# Principal/Staff Technical Program Manager, Engineering

Simbe builds Tally, an autonomous shelf-scanning robot deployed at fleet scale in enterprise grocery and retail. Tally is a ROS-based robotics platform paired with edge and cloud AI/computer vision, a cloud data platform, and retailer-facing reporting systems, spanning multiple hardware generations and product lines (mobile, fixed, RFID). Delivering a release means coordinating hardware, on-robot software, AI models, and cloud systems simultaneously, on a schedule where the finish line is a working robot in a real store, not a demo. We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to be the connective tissue across this system: the person who can see the full dependency graph, from a hardware decision through the robot's software stack, through the AI model, through the cloud pipeline, to what a retail partner sees on their dashboard, and make sure nothing falls through the seams between teams. What you'll own The cross-functional schedule for Simbe's highest-stakes programs: new Tally generation launches, fleet-wide software/hardware migrations, and large retail rollouts with hard external dates Integration checkpoints wherever domains meet: hardware-to-ROS (on-robot software), CV model

- **Id**: 3854187
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/simbe-robotics-principalstaff-technical-program-manager-engineering>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T05:18:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T15:44:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3722
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Retail & Commercial Robotics, Retail & Commerce AI

## Company

- **Id**: 8498
- **Name**: Simbe Robotics
- **Domain**: simberobotics.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/simbe-robotics>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.8
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 84
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 165000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Edge AI** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T05:18:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 84
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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