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# Research Technical Program Manager, Robotics at Dyna Robotics

- **Company:** Dyna Robotics
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dyna-robotics/8d6d345e-adaa-47cb-a259-212d3d7c6f9d

## Job description

Dyna Robotics builds general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model with top-in-industry generalization and real-world performance. Already deployed with customers across multiple industries, our robots do commercial-grade work in the physical world. Our team comes from Google DeepMind, Meta, and Cruise, and we're backed by CRV, First Round, and other leading investors.

## About the role

We’re looking for a Research Technical Program Manager with a strong research background in robotics to help guide and coordinate our research portfolio.

You’ll be the person who knows where our research stands: what each team is pursuing, what the evidence shows, how projects relate to one another, and where decisions or support are needed. Working closely with the Chief Research Officer, you’ll turn that understanding into clear priorities, sound technical judgments, and an actionable research strategy.

The role calls for scientific depth, good judgment, and the ability to help teams keep making progress through the uncertainty inherent in research.

## What you’ll do

- Maintain a complete view of the portfolio. Track each project’s objectives, hypotheses, results, milestones, risks, and upcoming decisions.
- Assess progress with researchers. Evaluate the strength of results, separate meaningful advances from open questions, and surface technical bottlenecks early.
- Connect work across teams. Spot shared challenges, dependencies, and complementary approaches, and find opportunities to bring separate projects together.
- Partner with the Chief Research Officer on strategy. Synthesize findings, develop recommendations, and support decisions on research direction, priorities, resourcing, and new opportunities.
- Turn strategy into research plans. Help teams define tractable questions, useful evaluation criteria, and milestones that reflect both scientific uncertainty and organizational goals.
- Drive decisions and follow-through. Lead research reviews, clarify tradeoffs, document decisions, and make sure every team has clear ownership and next steps.
- Keep leadership informed. Deliver concise, evidence-based updates that give an accurate picture of progress and show where leadership’s attention is needed.
- Bridge research and application. Work with engineering and product teams to identify when promising findings are ready for further development and what validation remains.

## What you’ll bring

- A strong research background in robotics, shown through original research, publications, or substantial contributions in an industry research setting.
- Deep expertise in one or more areas such as robot learning, manipulation, perception, planning, control, embodied AI, or autonomous systems.
- The ability to engage deeply with technical work: questioning assumptions, interpreting experimental results, and exercising sound judgment beyond your own specialty.
- Experience coordinating complex research efforts across multiple researchers, teams, or disciplines.
- Strategic thinking: you can connect individual projects to broader research goals and articulate the implications of different choices.
- Comfort with ambiguity and changing evidence, and the judgment to adapt plans as the research evolves.
- Clear communication, strong organization, and the ability to build trust and influence across teams.

Bonus points for

- A PhD in robotics, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent research experience.
- Experience working with senior research leadership on portfolio planning and technical prioritization.
- Hands-on experience with physical robotic systems, including the challenges of experimentation, evaluation, and deployment.
- A track record of connecting research efforts to produce stronger shared outcomes.

At Dyna Robotics, we build technology for the real world, which requires a team as diverse as the environments our robots inhabit. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to technical rigor and mutual respect. Don’t let a checklist stop you. Data shows that underrepresented groups often only apply if they meet 100% of the criteria. We value problem-solving and grit over keyword matching. If you’re passionate about robotics, no matter your discipline, we want to hear from you, even if you don't check every box.

## About Dyna Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dyna Robotics builds general-purpose commercial robots powered by proprietary embodied AI foundation models that achieve human-level dexterity and self-improvement across diverse real-world environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Lindon Gao (CEO), York Yang (Co‑founder), Jason Ma (Co‑founder / former DeepMind research scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics / Artificial Intelligence (embodied AI foundation models)
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises in manufacturing, logistics, laundry, food service, hospitality, and other industries requiring repetitive manipulation tasks
- **Mission statement**: “To empower businesses by automating repetitive, stationary tasks with affordable, intelligent robotic arms. Driving the future of general‑purpose robotics—one manipulation skill at a time.” [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dyna-robotics)

## Products & Services
- **DYNA‑1 Foundation Model** – A single‑weight, general‑purpose vision‑language‑action (VLA) model that achieves 99%+ success rates in 24‑hour non‑stop operation. It generalizes zero‑shot to unseen environments and learns new skills within hours. [dyna.co](https://www.dyna.co/)
- **DYNA‑1i: Open‑World Dexterity** – Production‑grade manipulation system with real‑time self‑correction and human‑level dexterity at commercial throughput. [dyna.co](https://www.dyna.co/)
- **Factory Automation** – 24/7 autonomous operation for precision manufacturing, kitting, assembly, pick‑and‑place, quality inspection, and packaging.
- **Laundry & Garment** – Automated folding and garment handling (e.g., DYNA‑1 folds 40+ shirts per hour).
- **Food & Hospitality** – Food service automation including napkin folding, plating, and delicate manipulation tasks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Total Funding**: $143.5 M (Seed $23.5 M in March 2025; Series A $120 M in September 2025) [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-raises-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models-on-the-path-to-physical-artificial-general-intelligence-302556817.html)
  - **Employees**: 98 (as of mid‑2025), +213.9% YoY headcount growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dyna-robotics)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: CRV, RoboStrategy, First Round Capital, Salesforce Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA), Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Next, LG Technology Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Robots already deployed 16 hours/day at hotels, restaurants, laundromats, and gyms within six months of launch.
  - Strong talent influx from Tesla (14 employees), Cruise, Meta, Nuro, Amazon Lab126.
  - LinkedIn follower growth +404.3% year‑over‑year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First general‑purpose foundation model for robotics** that works out‑of‑the‑box in new environments without custom engineering.
- **99%+ success rate** in continuous 24‑hour operation and ability to self‑improve through on‑the‑job data.
- **Rapid learning**: new skills acquired in hours, not weeks, with fleet‑wide updates.
- **Founding team** with proven exit (Caper AI sold for $350 M) and deep research pedigree (DeepMind).

## Strategic Focus
- Expand world‑class research and engineering team.
- Accelerate development of next‑generation foundation model.
- Scale commercial deployments across manufacturing, hospitality, and service industries.
- Collect high‑quality data from real‑world customers to continuously improve model generalization.

## Why Work Here
- **In‑office culture** – All employees work from physical offices in Redwood City, CA (with small satellite presence in China, Canada, Hong Kong). Strong in‑person collaboration is emphasized. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dyna-robotics)
- **Engineering‑heavy environment** – 27% of staff in technical roles, 9% in research, and 5% consulting. Recent open roles include Deployment Engineer, Research Engineer/Scientist, Full‑Stack Robotics Software Engineer, and Data Infra Engineer.
- **High growth trajectory** – Headcount nearly tripled in a year, with aggressive hiring across operations, research, and product.
- **Impactful mission** – Opportunity to work on cutting‑edge embodied AI that directly automates physical tasks, with a path toward physical AGI.
- **Competitive compensation & perks** (inferred from top VC backing and talent drawn from Big Tech).

## Sources
1. [dyna.co](https://www.dyna.co/) – Official website
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dyna-robotics) – Company overview, jobs, culture
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dyna-robotics) – Company details, funding, employee growth
4. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-raises-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models-on-the-path-to-physical-artificial-general-intelligence-302556817.html) – Series A announcement

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