Employer description & source details
As the Lead Technical Program Manager at Origin, you will own how the engineering team executes. This is the first dedicated program function at Origin, and you will build it from the ground up. You will run the OKR system, own the dependencies across autonomy, hardware, and field operations, and drive the delivery cadence that turns three teams into one machine. Sitting at the centre of a Physical AI company, you will move fluently between ML engineers, mechanical and manufacturing teams, and field deployment, keeping the product rollout on schedule and the robots shipping faster. You do not own the engineering. You own how it comes together on time. Define and run the company-wide OKR system, with every key result owned, tracked, and reported on a weekly cadence. Own cross-team dependencies and the critical path across autonomy, hardware, and operations, so work moves without the founders brokering it. Drive the autonomy program across data, model development, simulation, and QA, keeping milestones, dependencies, and handoffs on track in partnership with the autonomy leads. Drive the hardware program across design, manufacturing, assembly, and validation, holding the schedule and surfacing risks in partnership with the hardware leads. Own triage and closure of field issues from deployed units, accountable for time-to-resolve rather than just logging the bug. Make work visible across Asana and the hardware design tracking system, so no deliverable lives only in someone's head. Build the weekly delivery rhythm and reporting that lets the founders step out of day-to-day coordination. Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field or MBA 5-7+ years in technical program or engineering program management, including hardware or robotics programs.
Extracted skills: operations