# Technical Program Manager, T-Labs

Technical Program Manager, T-Labs (R&D) Location: Trondheim, Norway or San Jose, California Working arrangement: Primarily in office About Trener and T-Labs Trener builds Physical AI for industrial robotics. Our software-defined robotics platform is already running in production on real factory floors through Acteris. Backed by a $32M Series A, we operate from dual headquarters in San Jose, California and Trondheim, Norway, with teammates across six countries. T-Labs is Trener's R&D group. It takes on the hard, longer-horizon problems that shape what our robots can do next, from learning-based manipulation to the compute that runs those models at the edge, and turns promising research into capabilities our product teams can ship. The role As Technical Program Manager for T-Labs, you will be the operational backbone of our R&D group. You will lead program execution across both robot learning and edge compute: coordinating the training and evaluation of robot learning models, bringing those models onto edge AI hardware, and keeping researchers, engineers, hardware partners and product teams aligned on milestones and dependencies. This is a hands-on, technically fluent role. You will

- **Id**: 3994544
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/trener-robotics-technical-program-manager-t-labs>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Trondheim, Norway
- **Countries**: NO
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T20:24:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:02:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7595
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Robotics, Robotic Software & Control Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 685055
- **Name**: Trener Robotics
- **Domain**: trener.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/trener>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **Edge AI** — Optional: no
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: no
- **Physical AI** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Sim-to-Real** — Optional: no
- **Teleoperation** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **Gazebo** — Optional: yes
- **Isaac Sim** — Optional: yes
- **MuJoCo** — Optional: yes
- **Scrum** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Norway** — Iso: NO; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T00:46:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 98
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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