Field AI is transforming how robots interact with the real world by building risk-aware, reliable, and field-ready AI systems to address complex challenges in robotics. The company aims to unlock the full potential of embodied intelligence through real-world deployments and rapidly improving models.
Requirements
- 5-10 years of experience in hardware program management in a cross-discipline environment (EE/ME/FW/Test). Experience running hardware through validation cycles. Strong familiarity with certification processes (EMI/EMC, FCC, IP ratings).
- Technical ability to engage with electrical, mechanical, sensing and compute teams and understand system-level trade-offs.
- Experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or sensing/compute payloads.
- Experience in both structured and agile/hands-on environments (e.g., small hardware team inside larger org or scrappy startup).
- Experience scaling production of technical hardware systems.
Responsibilities
- Program & Portfolio Leadership: Build hardware team roadmaps across development and operations. Identify critical paths, coordinate dependencies and drive weekly progress.
- Manufacturing & Scaling: Develop and maintain a resilient supply chain by tracking long-lead components, evaluating vendor options, and coordinating with suppliers. Assess and manage manufacturing paths including contract manufacturers, local technicians, and internal builds.
- Testing & Validation Management: Define validation plans (thermal, ingress, reliability, functional), allocate prototype units, manage test fixtures and setups, and verify test results. Ensure hardware meets the requirements for reliable field deployment.
- Compliance & Certification: Work closely with EE and ME teams to ensure designs are ready for certification. Coordinate external lab logistics for EMI/EMC, IP and other critical certifications.
- Documentation Management: Maintain current design files, test results, build procedures, and release documentation. Ensure engineering changes are version-controlled and clearly communicated across teams and vendors.
- Cross-Functional Integration: Facilitate alignment between hardware and autonomy/software teams, operations, platform integrators and field deployment groups. Represent hardware in company-wide planning.
Other
- BS in EE, ME, CE, Robotics or related; MS a plus but not required.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, comfortable working with engineers, operations teams, external labs and company leadership.
