# Technical Program Manager, Sensors **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $207K - $285K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c8c607f4-d29f-46ea-b3ee-5a052ac17278?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a6caf852-ac6 ## Description ## Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $207K - $285K per year, with generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Benefits include: - 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 - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends ## About Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. We integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. ## About the Role We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to drive development and integration of a range of sensor systems for robotics. This role will drive cross-functional alignment across requirements, engineering design, integration, validation, manufacturing, supply chain, and release processes. ## Responsibilities - Drive requirements alignment across engineering design, integration, testing, and validation for camera modules, LiDAR, IMUs, RADAR, proximity sensors, audio components and the systems they interact with. - Coordinate the integration of modules including electrical, mechanical, harnessing, and software interfaces with the full robotic system. - Establish effective cadences for technical reviews, BOM readiness, change management, production releases, approvals, and decision tracking. - Align harnesses, fasteners, assembly fixtures, test fixtures, and documentation so cross-functional teams can execute against a clear plan. - Lead validation planning around functional, reliability, NVH failure modes, including testing needs, schedules, and exit criteria. - Partner with manufacturing and supply chain to manage handoffs, lead times, dependencies, 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. ## You might thrive in this role if you: - Bring experience in developing camera modules, microphones/speakers, radar, proximity sensing, etc. and their integration into mobile robots. - Have led complex electromechanical hardware programs from requirements through manufacturing. - Understand engineering development systems for version control, change management, technical reviews, approvals, and production releases. - Can work effectively across engineering, test, manufacturing, and supply chain teams. ## What success looks like: - Requirements, interfaces, dependencies, and validation plans are aligned across engineering teams. - Sensor subsystems move from design through integration and testing with clear milestones and exit criteria. - Technical reviews, BOM readiness, change control, and production-release mechanisms are operating effectively. - Functional, reliability, and NVH risks are surfaced early and driven to closure. - Cost, quality, performance, schedule, and lead-time tradeoffs are quantified and resolved cross-functionally. - Mitigation strategies are well communicated and aligned upon, acceleration of hardware development from design to trials on the floor is quantifiable. - Tools and workflows built are well embedded in the daily routine of all the team members, thus do not seem an added overhead to get things done. ## Skills ### Required - camera modules - LiDAR - IMUs - RADAR - proximity sensors - audio components - electromechanical hardware - version control - change management ### Nice to have - experience in developing camera modules, microphones/speakers, radar, proximity sensing - led complex electromechanical hardware programs --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c8c607f4-d29f-46ea-b3ee-5a052ac17278?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)