# Engineering Program Manager - Robotics

Our Mission Expand human ambition in the physical world. Critical infrastructure is constrained by labor shortages, hazardous working conditions, and operational complexity. Watney builds and deploys autonomous robotic systems that increase the speed and capacity of buildout, starting with data centers. About the Role At Watney, the Engineering Program Manager owns the hardware programs that teach our robots new tasks - the fixtures and rigs that generate the training data behind robot autonomy. This is a 0-to-1 role, and every program you run touches the robot itself. You build the schedule, the budget, and the cross-functional coordination starting with the first task. What You’ll Do Own schedule, budget, and cross-functional delivery for the hardware programs that teach robots new tasks. Take a program from first build to validated, with no existing process to lean on. Work directly with the engineers designing and building the hardware - enough to earn their respect, not to do their job. Grow into owning robot build and manufacturing programs as they need one. You May Be a Good Fit If You: Have run a hardware program at a large company through at least one 0-to-1 cycle. Ar

- **Id**: 1296972
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/watney-engineering-program-manager-robotics>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **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**: 2026-08-28T00:33:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T04:45:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 76
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1809
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Robotics, Construction Robotics

## Company

- **Id**: 3812884
- **Name**: Watney
- **Domain**: watney.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/watney-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.167
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 108
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 92000
- **Max usd**: 216000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 13135

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 76

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T09:43:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 57
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.789
- **P room**: 0.72
- **Age days**: 75
- **Expected fill days**: 108
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:mid, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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