# Technical Program Manager, Actuators

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $207k – $285k/yr
**Skills:** Actuators, Electromechanical Hardware, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Firmware, Harnesses, Controls, Pcbas, Connectors, Reliability Testing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Change Control, Production Readiness
**Posted:** 2026-08-20

> Technical Program Manager responsible for actuator development and integration from system goals through production readiness. The role coordinates multidisciplinary hardware, firmware, testing, manufacturing, and supply-chain teams while driving technical convergence, validation, risk management, and delivery.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Drive actuator programs end-to-end, aligning scope, milestones, interfaces, dependencies, and exit criteria across engineering teams.
- Drive scope lock and technical convergence for sprints, MVPs, and stretch goals while connecting component decisions to system performance.
- Coordinate actuator development across motors, gears, sensing, electronics, and firmware, including electrical and mechanical interfaces with the broader robot.
- Lead validation planning from early prototypes through engineering validation, reliability testing, and production readiness.
- Drive tradeoff decisions across cost, quality, performance, schedule, and lead time.
- Establish mechanisms for technical reviews, change control, design releases, decision tracking, and manufacturing readiness.
- Surface risks and drive decisions, owners, and actions to closure.

## Requirements and Qualifications
- Experience leading complex electromechanical hardware programs from development through manufacturing.
- Ability to reason about actuator internal architecture and integration through PCBAs, connectors, and cables.
- Ability to work across mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, firmware, harnesses, controls, test, reliability, manufacturing, and supply chain.
- Understanding of hardware development realities, including prototype cycles, long-lead parts, suppliers, testing, design changes, and production ramp.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: $207,000–$285,000.
- Hybrid role based in San Francisco, CA, requiring in-person presence four days per week.

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