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# Senior Technical Program Manager, Software at Cobot

- **Company:** Cobot
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cobot/26165372-803f-432d-8183-81bcea4cb34b

## Job description

The Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM), Software will pioneer product development at the intersection of robotics and AI and orchestrate complex programs that drive innovation. If you’re a strategic thinker with a hands-on approach, eager to lead cross-functional teams in delivering integrated system solutions, we invite you to join us at Collaborative Robotics as the Technical Program Manager responsible for robot software.

In this role, you will guide the development of all software related to our robot, Proxie, including our autonomy stack (Localization, Perception, Navigation), robot behaviors, and fleet management system for both the current and future generations of the product. Working across software, hardware, customer operations, and company leadership, you will create and execute plans, enable key decision-making, and drive complex issues to resolution while building scalable, customer-centric products. This is a golden opportunity for a technically strong leader who is ready to tackle challenges head-on and play a pivotal role in helping us achieve our ambitious company goals.

Join us to reimagine the future of human-robot interaction.

Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction. We are working to realize a world where robots are a trusted extension of your surroundings. They work, adapt, and react around you. Not the other way around.

This role is located onsite at our Santa Clara, CA headquarters.

## Key Responsibilities

- Support end-to-End Programs while overseeing the planning, execution, and delivery of software supporting continuous improvement and new features on our current robots, as well as for future robots.
- Assist in driving execution by creating plans that meet scope, timeline, and resource budget requirements, then manage them to closure.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with software developers, hardware engineers, operations team members, and customer-facing teams to align objectives and deliverables.
- Proactively identify potential risks and opportunities that may impact the product or schedule - develop strategies to mitigate/enact them
- Blend technical expertise with business expertise to provide guidance on how software engineering work aligns with customer/product needs.
- Identify and troubleshoot issues that arise during deployments, working closely with engineering teams to resolve them.
- Continuously seek opportunities to streamline and simplify processes.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, or related field).
- 5+ years of program management experience, including the development of software products for an autonomous system.
- Excellent leadership and team-building skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams.
- Experience guiding SW teams focused on cutting-edge product development.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects using methodologies like Agile or Scrum, while holding to top level company goals/milestones.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Highly motivated teammate with excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Enjoy working in a fast paced, collaborative and dynamic start-up environment as part of a small team.
- Willing to occasionally travel.
- Must have and maintain US work authorization.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 7+ years of program management experience, including the development of software products for an autonomous system.
- Experience bridging AI solutions into engineering deliverables.
- Experience managing software products that are routinely deployed into live operations.
- Strong understanding of software and hardware development processes, including system integration
- Experience delivering products that have been certified for functional safety
- Experience with AI tools to accelerate program management

The base salary range for this position is $180,000-$200,000 plus equity and comprehensive benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and experience level. The range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position in the noted geographic area. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Cobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

To all recruitment agencies: Collaborative Robotics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our employees. Collaborative Robotics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

## About Cobot

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cobot (Collaborative Robotics) builds practical collaborative robots (cobots) designed to work safely alongside people in real-world environments, starting with its flagship robot, Proxie.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States (secondary office in Seattle, WA)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Brad Porter (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Automation Machinery Manufacturing, Robotics, Healthcare logistics
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise and mid-market customers in healthcare, logistics, and facility management
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To build a new robotic future. A future where robots are a trusted extension of your surroundings. They work, adapt, and react around you. Not the other way around."

## Products & Services
- **[Proxie](https://www.co.bot/)**: A mobile collaborative robot designed for material handling, asset tracking, and facility management in complex, human-centric spaces. Hardware with embedded AI and predictable behaviors.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Total Funding**: $140M (Seed: $10M, June 2022; Series A: $30M, July 2023; Series B: $100M, April 2024)
  - **Annual Revenue**: ~$250K (early-stage, pre-revenue at scale)
  - **Employees**: ~132 (as of mid-2026), growing +103% YoY
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Neo (Seed lead)
  - Sequoia Capital (Series A lead)
  - General Catalyst (Series B lead)
  - Bison Ventures, Industry Ventures, Lux Capital (Series B participants)
  - Advisor: Teresa Carlson (former AWS executive)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Public launch of Proxie in November 2024
  - Rapid headcount growth (+103% YoY)
  - Talent sourced from Amazon Robotics, Meta, Tesla, Apple
  - Featured in AWS CEO keynote (2024)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team with deep robotics expertise** – Founded by Brad Porter, who helped scale Amazon Robotics to over 500,000 robots.
- **Empathy-first design philosophy** – Robots that react to people, not vice versa, enabling safe deployment in crowded, dynamic environments without cages.
- **Full-stack ownership** – In-house hardware, AI, safety systems, and software platform.

## Strategic Focus
- **Healthcare and logistics** – Targeting high-value use cases like hospital material transport and warehouse collaboration.
- **Scaling field deployment** – Building professional services and strategic account teams to support enterprise customers.
- **Safety certification** – Actively hiring Staff Certification Lead and Staff Software Engineer, Safety to meet rigorous industry standards.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "One without egos. Driven by empathy. With collaboration at its core." Emphasis on mission-driven work and cross-functional teamwork.
- **Work policy**: In-office (Seattle and Santa Clara offices). No remote or hybrid options listed for most roles.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**:
  - Cutting-edge tech stack: Python, TypeScript, PyTorch, TensorFlow, ROS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
  - Strong safety engineering focus – unique opportunity to shape the safety paradigm in collaborative robotics.
  - Small but rapidly growing team (132 people) with high ownership and impact.
  - Alumni have gone to Google, Meta, Apple, Stack AV, Zipline – signaling a pedigree robotics talent pool.

## Sources
1. [co.bot (Official Website)](https://www.co.bot/)
2. [Cobot LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/co-bot)
3. [Built In – Cobot Profile](https://builtin.com/company/cobot)
4. [LeadIQ – Cobot Company Overview](https://leadiq.com/c/cobot---collaborative-robotics-inc/6398f5ce99142b48fd4f4cd7)
5. [Ashby – Cobot Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cobot)

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