--- title: 'Senior Technical Program Manager at EchoTwin AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-technical-program-manager-echotwin-ai-san-francisco-qbtv703bm0de' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Senior Technical Program Manager at EchoTwin AI - **Company:** EchoTwin AI - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-09-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/echotwin/93888d8f-d32c-4213-8768-93b2bc63fc03 ## Job description Company Overview EchoTwin AI is pioneering AI-driven infrastructure intelligence, redefining how cities are managed. Powered by a proprietary visual intelligence engine with full spatial reasoning, EchoTwin transforms municipal fleets into mobile urban sensors—creating living digital twins that provide real-time insights into infrastructure, compliance, and safety. By enabling municipalities to proactively monitor, predict, and resolve issues, EchoTwin helps build resilient, self-healing, and sustainable urban ecosystems. More than “smart cities,” EchoTwin is advancing the era of cognizant cities—urban environments with the awareness to see, think, and act on challenges in real time. What The Job Involves EchoTwin AI is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to plan and execute complex end-to-end programs. You will work across engineering, product management, business, and operations to drive strategy into roadmaps and plans that deliver critical work on time and at high quality. In this role, you will lead a multi-disciplinary effort across hardware, device software, cloud, and perception through all product lifecycle stages. ## Responsibilities - Own the program’s success end-to-end - Lead the team to deliver results for our customers and our business - Create clear program plans from input across the company - Prioritize and drive tasks to closure - Provide insightful program updates to stakeholders and executive - Anticipate and resolve program issues, productively escalate as needed - Triage field issues and adapt programs to emerging needs - Coordinate cross-functional dependencies across the company - Identify opportunities to improve execution and initiate solutions ## Qualifications - 7+ years experience in Technical Program Management or Engineering Program Management. - Experience leading the development and launch of at least 3 new products into production. - Strong technical background in hardware, device software, and cloud development, with a solid understanding of engineering principles, processes, and best practices. - Experience working closely with multidisciplinary technical teams to drive fast-paced delivery of critical products and functionality. - Deep knowledge of tools and techniques for managing complex product development through its entire lifecycle. - Experience delivering innovative technologies to government agencies is a plus. - B.S. in an engineering discipline. ## Benefits and Perks There are endless learning and development opportunities from a highly diverse and talented peer group, including experts in various fields, including Computer Vision, GenAI, Digital Twin, Government Contracting, Systems and Device Engineering, Operations, Communications, and more! - Options for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (for US employees) - Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCFSA) - 401(k) with 3% company matching - Unlimited PTO - Profit sharing Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, EchoTwin AI employees, or any other company location. EchoTwin AI is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Life at EchoTwin AI If you want to empower the world’s most important cities—and the institutions that run them—you belong here. At EchoTwin AI, we value excellence regardless of background and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. EchoTwin AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. ## About EchoTwin AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: EchoTwin AI builds a Physical AI operating system for cities, turning municipal fleets and infrastructure into intelligent, self-aware urban networks. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, $25M total funding) - **Headquarters**: Boca Raton, Florida, United States (also offices in San Francisco, New York, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha) - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Chris Carson (Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Urban AI / Smart City Infrastructure / Computer Vision - **Target customers**: Municipal governments, city authorities, urban planning departments (B2G/B2B) - **Mission**: To enhance urban safety, sustainability, and resilience through AI and geospatial intelligence, enabling self-healing cities that can see, understand, and respond in real time. ## Products & Services - **[CityView](https://www.echotwin.ai/)**: A vision-language model (VLM) purpose-built for cities. It interprets complex visual and textual data to detect infrastructure issues, compliance violations, and hazards in real time. Deployed via edge devices on vehicles, drones, and autonomous systems. - **[EchoTwin Platform](https://www.echotwin.ai/)**: A vertically integrated edge-to-cloud platform that ingests data from municipal sensors, runs AI analytics (predictive, diagnostic, geospatial), and provides dashboards, APIs, and automated workflows for city operators. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: $25M total funding (two seed rounds: $17M led by Metis Ventures in Feb 2025, $8M in Sep 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Metis Ventures (lead), plus 6 other investors per Seed round; partnerships with pioneering cities (e.g., NEOM, Dubai 2040, Paris 2050 initiatives) - **Growth Signals**: 106.7% headcount growth YoY (28 employees); 2,368 LinkedIn followers (+223% yearly); active job postings (9 open roles); presence in 5 countries (US, Serbia, UAE, Greece, Portugal) ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary CityView VLM**: A specialized vision-language model trained on urban contexts, providing human-level perception for infrastructure monitoring. - **Edge-to-cloud architecture**: Real-time processing on vehicles/drones reduces latency and bandwidth needs, enabling autonomous corrective actions. - **Regulatory compliance & ethics**: Adheres to NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ETSI EN 303 645 cybersecurity standard, GDPR, and ISO/IEC 27701 – a key trust differentiator for government contracts. - **Self-healing city concept**: Moves beyond detection to automated remediation via agentic workflows, offering a proactive vs. reactive urban management model. ## Strategic Focus - **Global expansion**: Targeting smart city initiatives in North America, Middle East, Europe, and Asia (NEOM, Dubai 2040, Paris 2050). - **Product development**: Advancing CityView capabilities (geospatial reasoning, anomaly detection, predictive analytics) and expanding API/SDK ecosystem. - **Scaling deployments**: Converting municipal fleets into mobile sensing networks and integrating with third-party urban systems. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven impact**: Work on tangible urban challenges (safety, sustainability, resilience) with real-world outcomes. - **Global, distributed team**: Offices in San Francisco, New York, Dubai, and remote-friendly roles; culture of collaboration and mutual empowerment. - **Engineering focus**: 35% of staff in technical roles (CV, VLM, firmware, data science); cutting-edge stack (computer vision, LLMs, edge computing). - **Growth trajectory**: Early-stage (founded 2024) with rapid headcount growth and $25M funding – opportunity to shape product and culture. - **Perks & culture**: Emphasis on responsible AI, ethical practices, and a tight-knit, nimble team. Some roles are in-office (San Francisco, New York, Dubai) while others offer remote flexibility. ## Sources 1. [EchoTwin AI Website](https://www.echotwin.ai/) 2. [EchoTwin AI About Page](https://www.echotwin.ai/about) 3. [EchoTwin AI Careers Page](https://www.echotwin.ai/careers) 4. [EchoTwin AI LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/echotwinai) 5. [EchoTwin AI on Built In](https://builtin.com/company/echotwin-ai) 6. 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