Technical Program Manager

mimic is a deep tech robotics and AI company deploying frontier Physical AI on robots that can handle complex, dexterous tasks in manufacturing and logistics. We’re at the forefront of the new paradigm in robot learning: video action models that map visual input directly to actions, enabling robust real-world performance.

Requirements

• Apply and adapt our existing AI model recipes (data, training, evaluation, deployment configs) to real-world customer tasks, running policy evaluations and experiments
• Establish and manage a frontier robotics and AI lab, hands-on operating and maintaining robotic systems
• Debug and resolve issues across the full stack, from software (Linux, Python, ROS) to hardware, diagnosing failures, testing fixes, and iterating quickly in real conditions
• Teleoperate, collect data, and run real-world evaluation workflows to improve system performance and robustness in close collaboration with the AI research team
• Run live demos for customers, partners, and potential hires. Present the company and its robots, explaining complex technical systems confidently & clearly, whether you’re speaking to engineers or business executives
• Represent mimic in the Bay Area robotics and AI ecosystem, building and expanding operations, attending and hosting events, creating lasting relationships with the best engineers, operators and talent in the exploding robotics scene
• Act as a local extension of the team, connecting conversations in SF back into product, engineering, and strategy

Benefits

• Competitive yearly base salary
• Strong stock option package