Menlo Research

Product Manager, Hardware

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago

Full-Stack DevelopmentProduct ManagementProduct StrategySupply ChainProcurementSystems EngineeringRoboticsHardware DesignPower ElectronicsResearchActuators

About the role

You will sit at the intersection of mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering teams, translating real-world deployment requirements into a hardware roadmap that ships.
This is a hands-on, ground-floor role at a lab building one of the most technically ambitious robotics platforms in the world.
You will be one of the first dedicated PMs on the team, which means you will have significant influence over how we build the function.

Responsibilities

Define and own the hardware product roadmap for Asimov, covering mechanical structures, actuators, sensors, and power systems, and maintain a clear prioritisation of what ships next and why.
Partner with the locomotion and simulation teams to understand performance constraints, and feed those back into hardware design decisions.
Drive the full hardware release lifecycle from concept through DVT and mass production readiness, owning milestones, dependencies, and risk management.
Coordinate with supply chain, procurement, and manufacturing on BOM decisions, lead times, and cost targets as the platform scales.
Define and track hardware quality metrics, working with field and operations teams to close the loop between deployment performance and design iteration.
Build the processes and documentation needed to scale hardware PM work across a growing team.
Fluency in reading mechanical and electrical documentation, enough to challenge tradeoffs in design reviews without needing a translator.
Working knowledge of supply chain fundamentals as they apply to hardware products: BOM management, vendor qualification, lead time planning, cost modelling, and the tradeoffs between off-the-shelf and custom components.
You understand how supply chain decisions constrain and shape hardware design, not just fulfillment.

Nice to have

Experience with humanoid or legged robots, or other high-complexity mechatronic systems.
Background in robotics hardware, servo actuators, or precision motion systems.
Exposure to sim-to-real development workflows and the hardware constraints they surface.
Experience scaling hardware from prototype to low-volume production.
If you want to be the PM who helps define what a world-class humanoid hardware platform looks like, this is the role.
You don't need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect everyone at Menlo to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work.
For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement.
When that's the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications.

Company info

Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it.
Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable -- turning software into physical labor at scale.

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