Product Manager

Were looking for a Product Manager to own the software platform and agent layer at the core of what we build. This is a focused high-leverage scope in a company where the product is genuinely novel theres no established PM playbook for an AI-driven autonomous materials lab and were not looking for someone to follow one.

Youll report to our President and Co-founder and work directly with scientists and engineers building systems without obvious a company this size that means being in the room for conversations that actually shape what gets built. Those conversations are substantive and sometimes contentious this is a team with strong opinions and the technical depth to back them up.

This is not a coordination role. Were looking for someone who drives product thinking develops sharp intuitions about what matters translates those into clear requirements and holds the thread from discovery through delivery. That means being willing to defend a product position when engineers push back knowing when to stand firm and when to update your view and earning credibility through judgment rather than authority. It also means getting close to customers understanding their problems well enough to define the right solutions and thinking clearly about how product decisions translate into go-to-market. If your instinct is to manage a backlog rather than own an outcome or to defer rather than decide this isnt the right fit.

Software platform:

• The product surface that scientists engineers and operators use to interact with our autonomous lab how its structured what it exposes and how it evolves

• Feature definition and prioritization across the software layer informed by close collaboration with internal users and external partners

• A clear opinionated point of view on what the platform should do and what it shouldnt

Agent capabilities:

• The AI agent layer that powers our autonomous lab what tools agents have access to how theyre designed to reason and where the capability gaps are

• Working directly with engineering and ML research to translate scientific and operational requirements into concrete agent tooling and workflow specs

• Staying current on the agentic AI landscape; knowing whats newly possible and when its worth building vs. adopting

Cross-functional:

• Work closely with engineering science and ML research to keep the roadmap grounded in both technical reality and user need

• Own a genuine considered design for the overall agentic system not just feature-level decisions but how the system fits together

• Collaborate with PMs at partner and customer organizations to align on requirements and roadmap priorities

• Communicate product direction clearly to engineers building it and to leadership deciding where to invest

Required:

• 57 years in a product management role; ideally with experience at a technical or deep-tech company

• Technically credible you can write code even if not at production scale; comfort with POC or prototype-level implementation is expected. You read codebases fluently understand system architecture and engage with engineers as a peer not through a translator

• Strong user intuition you know how to identify whats actually needed not just whats asked for through close collaboration with scientists and engineers who use what you build

• Strong communication and stakeholder management you can influence without authority across science and engineering teams

• Comfortable with ambiguity and first-principles thinking; this is not a role with established processes to follow

• Based in New York City

Nice to have:

• Experience with scientific laboratory robotics or industrial software

• Familiarity with AI/ML products LLM-based systems or agent frameworks

• Exposure to enterprise or government customers in deep-tech or regulated industries

• Background building internal tooling or developer-facing products