Technical Program Manager, Fauna
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
You will operate at the intersection of robotics autonomy and operationsdesigning workflows coordinating cross-functional efforts and ensuring high-quality data generation to accelerate product development. Your work will directly impact the ability of our robots to learn complex behaviors and perform reliably in real-world environments.
This role requires both strong technical fluency and operational leadership. The ideal candidate is comfortable navigating ambiguity building processes from scratch and driving execution in a fast-paced research-driven environment.
Key job responsibilities
- Own and scale the teleoperation program used for policy evaluation and targeted data collection ensuring high throughput reliability and alignment with product and research priorities
- Design and operationalize structured teleoperation workflows that systematically evaluate robot performance across core tasks edge cases and emerging capabilities
- Lead the collection of high-quality task-specific datasets that directly support model development capability validation and roadmap-critical initiatives
- Build robust evaluation systems that translate teleoperation runs into actionable insights on policy performance failure modes and improvement opportunities
- Identify gaps in robot behavior and proactively drive targeted data collection or testing strategies to accelerate learning and system performance
- Develop and improve internal tools dashboards and operator interfaces to increase efficiency usability and scalability of teleoperation and data operations
- Continuously optimize processes introducing automation and operational rigor to improve data quality reduce friction and increase iteration speed
- Drive cross-functional alignment across robotics AI and operations teams to ensure program success
About the team
Fauna Robotics an Amazon company is building capable safe and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future wont arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. Were changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster safer and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design control systems dynamic modeling and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality but experience. Were building robots that feel responsive expressive and genuinely useful.
At Fauna youll work at the frontier of this space helping define how robots move manipulate and interact with people in natural environments. Its an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable were interested in hearing from you.
- 3 years of technical product or program management experience
- 2 years of software development experience
- 3 years of project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 3 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5 years of project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 139900.00 - 189200.00 USD annually
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