Technical Product Manager, ML & Robotics

The role

The Technical Product Manager will be the single product owner for machine learning and industrial robotics. This person will own the ML platform, simulators, and perception and robotics initiatives while managing the seam between the applied AI/ML and software engineering organizations.

What you will do

• Talk to internal teams including operators, process engineers, and MLEs.
• Own the roadmap for the ML platform.
• Write product specs, KPIs, and success metrics.
• Own prioritization and stakeholder alignment.
• Own the path to process autonomy and the simulators that underpin it.
• Own the roadmap for vision, sensor, and robotics initiatives.
• Own the seam between the applied AI/ML org and the software engineering org.
• Define what it takes for a model, simulator, or robot to be trusted in production.

Required qualifications

• 4–8+ years in technical product management, ML platform or robotics product roles, or equivalent experience leading cross-disciplinary technical programs
• Comfortable being the only PM in a highly technical room
• Depth in ML systems including training, evaluation, deployment, perception, simulation
• Track record of bringing structure to ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong prioritization and tradeoff skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication across audiences

Nice to have

• Product ownership of an ML platform, MLOps stack, or simulation system in production
• Prior work on industrial robotics, perception, or closed-loop optimization of chemical or industrial process systems
• Familiarity with process simulation toolchains (SysCAD or similar)
• Background in mining, energy, chemicals, manufacturing, or other heavy industry — especially industrial automation or sensor/vision data
• Working fluency with the current LLM/foundation-model landscape and where it applies to ML and robotics workflows

About the company

Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies.