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Engineering Program Manager
San Francisco · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 116 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentSupply ChainCadenceEmbedded SystemsRoboticsPower ElectronicsFDA RegulatoryAdaptabilityActuators
About the role
- You will be the connective tissue across our hardware, firmware, software, and operations teams - the person who keeps a complex, cross-disciplinary program moving without losing the details that matter.
- Some of the specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Define the processes that let a small team ship a product as complex as a wearable robot without slowing each other down.
Responsibilities
- Own the integrated hardware program plan across mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and supply chain - from early prototypes through EVT, DVT, PVT, and ramp to 10,000+ units shipped in the next 18 months
- Roadmap our hardware and cross-functional delivery milestones for the next 5 years, including support for multiple products
- Drive structured milestone reviews, risk registers, and decision logs so nothing important is left undocumented or unresolved
- Partner with hardware engineers to understand subsystem tradeoffs - actuators, sensors, power systems - and translate them into program-level decisions and schedule impacts
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in engineering program management
- 4+ years of experience with consumer hardware products
- 4+ years guiding products through full EVT → DVT → PVT → MP cycles
- Experience managing CM relationships, component sourcing risk, and production ramp planning
- Ability to relocate to work at the Skip Bay Area office
- Experience with wearables, exoskeletons, soft robotics, or any product that physically interacts with the human body
- Familiarity with embedded firmware development and software-hardware co-development cycles
- Experience in start-up environments
Company info
- Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement.
- Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead.
- Skip is a 24-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc'teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, develop a platform to launch future Movewear products and transform millions of lives in the coming years.
- Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health.
- Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability.
- We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences.
- We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead.
- Skip is a 24-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023.
- With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc'teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, develop a platform to launch future Movewear products and transform millions of lives in the coming years.
- We are seeking a highly motivated and adaptable individual who will explore the peaks and valleys of all problems that may come up while building a new category of consumer product.
- You'll own the integrated program plan and milestone cadence that gets the MO/GO into customers' hands.
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