HW Program Manager
Matician
Location
Mountain View, CA
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Hardware
Company Overview
Each year, 2.5 trillion hours are spent on household chores. At Matic, we’re on a mission to recapture that lost time, and we’re doing it by revolutionizing home robotics.
Our first product, also called Matic, is a Wall-E-esque floor cleaning robot. We've built what amounts to "full self-driving in the home” with real-time 3D mapping, adaptive path-tracking, and a precise semantic understanding of the home. Our breakthroughs in spatial AI allow Matic to work reliably in real homes, using only RGB cameras and neural networks running on-device.
Privacy First
What happens in the home, stays in the home. Our robots are private by design, with all data processing performed by the robot itself, not in the cloud.
Our Approach
Before the iPhone, consumers adopted several distinct devices; cell phones, PDAs, and portable music players each served a particular need. We believe in a similar progression for home robotics, starting with single-purpose robots and building iteratively toward more complex capabilities over time.
Our Culture
Matic is a tight-knit and collaborative team, singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We're ultra-hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save precious time and energy.
About the role
We’re looking for a detail oriented, analytical and customer oriented Hardware Program Manager to join our HW design and engineering team in Mountain View, CA. This role offers significant impact, driving hardware development and production buildout for our innovative home robotics products.
What You’ll Do
Organize and prioritize product development roadmap tasks from leadership and senior engineers
Gather and prioritize product ideas, feature enhancements, cost reductions, scalability, and quality improvements from the engineering team
Maintain ongoing communication with the Matic Production team, documenting and tracking production issues
Collaborate with the global supply chain team to identify, document, and address critical supply chain challenges
Liaise with the customer service team to collect, document, and prioritize key customer issues for engineering resolution
Analyze engineering data from defective or returned robots to inform and drive design improvements
Work cross-functionally with hardware teams to align and prioritize tasks for Electrical Engineering (EE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME) teams
Lead cross-functional efforts to resolve issues, ensuring high product quality and on-time delivery
What We Look For
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, or equivalent
Relevant experience in program management or design in a professional hardware engineering environment
Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced startup environment
Strong understanding of hardware development processes (EE and ME)
Experience working with global supply chains and manufacturing teams is a strong plus
Excellent communication and prioritization skills
Comfort with ambiguity and a high-ownership mindset
Passion for solving complex technical and operational challenges
We’d Love to Hear From You If...
You are genuinely motivated to help those around you
You are passionate about learning outside of your normal comfort zones
You love diagnosing complex technical issues
You are excited to do great work