Product Manager

The role

You will be the product lead for Moby robot capabilities and deployment. You will work with engineers to decide skills and capabilities and work with customers to ensure robots perform on jobsites.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap for robot capabilities and deployment tooling.
• Turn field reality into requirements by visiting customer sites.
• Write specs including product requirements, acceptance criteria and validation plans.
• Work across AI, software and hardware to make trade-offs.
• Build the deployment path from site assessment to handoff.
• Partner with field operations on onboarding, operator training and site documentation.
• Define and track success metrics like task success rate and uptime.
• Represent the product with customers and prospects during evaluations.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in product management, or a mix of product and engineering, with direct ownership of a technical hardware/software product.
• Technical depth to work with robotics, AI and hardware engineers.
• Track record of writing product requirements, acceptance criteria and validation plans.
• Experience defining product metrics and operational workflows for complex physical systems.
• Experience gathering requirements directly from customers or field teams.
• Comfort serving internal engineers and external customers.
• Willingness to work onsite in Sunnyvale and travel to customer sites, including active industrial environments.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience at an early-stage robotics, autonomous vehicle, hardware or industrial automation company.
• Product experience with robot learning, autonomy, teleoperation, simulation or testing platforms.
• Background in field testing, customer deployments or fleet operations for complex systems.
• Knowledge of functional safety and robotics standards (ISO 10218, ISO/TS 15066, ANSI/A3 R15.06).
• Familiarity with construction, mining or energy work environments.

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off

About the company

Noble Machines builds general-purpose robots for dangerous and physically demanding jobs in heavy industry. The team was founded in 2024 by engineers from Apple, SpaceX, NASA and Caltech.