Hardware Engineering Program Manager, Meta Robotics

Our team seeks a Hardware Engineering Program Manager to lead development and delivery with a focus on the Robotics products. In this role, you will lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver new technologies and product innovations to market. You will establish requirements with internal and external customers, manage program schedules, identify risks and associated mitigation plans, and clearly communicate to program stakeholders. You will define and drive highly complex, cross-functional plans for new product introductions. You will also lead the build planning and execution, including establishing requirements and build goals, managing schedules, and identifying and tracking risks and associated mitigations. You will be responsible for the communication of program and build status and risk to key stakeholders and executive leadership. You will partner closely with Operations and Hardware Engineering. We look for hardware engineering program managers who have a technical foundation in hardware product development and are effective at motivating cross-functional teams toward shared goals, cross-functional relationship builders, and advocates for driving the right level of process and effective communications to ensure smooth and predictable program execution in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage and host build activities from prototype through NPI phases in collaboration with the engineering and operations teams
• Frequent coordination with suppliers (foreign and domestic) to enforce development schedules, quality and manufacturing processes required during product development (prototype, EVT, and DVT)
• Drive program schedules, builds, and DOEs (design of experiments) at FATP and SMT sites to support early development investigations and NPI builds;
• Contribute to the product development process and best practices for factory management
• Effectively communicate build statuses, identify potential risks and setbacks, drive escalations and actions to address build blockers or critical issues, and develop mitigation strategies
• Work cross-functionally to develop best practices and technology development processes in a fast-changing environment to ensure on-time delivery
• Interface directly with cross-functional teams, including engineering, process, test, supply chain, quality, and factory teams, to drive development releases, design for manufacturability reviews (DFMs), readiness, build execution, reliability, production, and shipment
• Travel within Mainland China, with some travel to the Asia-Pacific region and the US

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Mechanical, Electrical engineering, or other relevant engineering discipline, physics, or equivalent experience
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Mandarin is required because the role involves frequent coordination with suppliers and factory teams in mainland China
• Experience and understanding of requirements and the development flow of building consumer electronics products
• 5+ years of experience as an engineering / hardware engineering program manager managing hardware programs from concept to mass production
• Hands-on engineering program management experience driving system and module level development as an individual contributor, especially in mainland China
• Experience working with CM/JDM/ODM suppliers or key component vendors
• Experience identifying and resolving program risks, organizing cross-functional workstreams, and implementing process improvements to increase program efficiency
• Experience building relationships and collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Experience with consumer electronics products, such as wearable products
• Experience in first-party product development, defining requirements and program constraints, and collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders
• Experience in building 0-to-1 product at both JDM and CM vendor engagement models
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies