# Technical Program Manager, Actuators

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $207K - $285K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to own actuator development and integration from system goals through production readiness. The actuator program spans mechanical, electrical, firmware, harnessing, controls, test, reliability, manufacturing, and supply chain, and needs a TPM who can turn cross-functional decisions into clear scope, executable milestones, and timely decisions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Drive actuator programs end-to-end, aligning scope, milestones, interfaces, dependencies, and exit criteria across engineering teams.

- Drive scope lock and technical convergence for sprints, MVPs, and stretch goals while connecting component decisions to system performance.

- Coordinate actuator development across motors, gears, sensing, electronics, and firmware, and align the electrical and mechanical interfaces that connect actuators to the broader robot.

- Lead validation planning from early prototypes through engineering validation, reliability testing, and production readiness.

- Drive tradeoff decisions across cost, quality, performance, schedule, and lead time by collaborating cross-functionally and quantifying impact to meet program deliverables.

- Establish effective mechanisms for technical reviews, change control, design releases, decision tracking, and manufacturing readiness.

- Surface risks early and drive decisions, owners, and actions to closure.

**Requirements:**

- Have led complex electromechanical hardware programs from development through manufacturing.

- Are equally comfortable reasoning about an actuator’s internal architecture and how it integrates into the larger system through PCBAs, connectors, cables, etc.

- Can work effectively across ME, EE, firmware, interconnecting harnesses, controls, test, reliability, manufacturing, and supply chain.

- Understand hardware development realities including prototype cycles, long-lead parts, suppliers, testing, design changes, and production ramp.

**Benefits:**

- $207K – $285K • Offers Equity

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical engineering
- electrical engineering
- firmware development
- hardware development
- supply chain management

### Nice to have
- actuator development
- robotics
- mechatronics
- cross-functional leadership

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