Principal Platform Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Define the vision, product strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for the Robotics Automation platform.
• Engage directly with customers and partners to identify core problems and translate them into technical requirements.
• Identify and prioritize initial pilot use cases while defining success measures and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with engineers to evaluate technical options and balance safety, reliability, cost, and delivery speed.
• Design the product model for managing shared resources, access rules, and operational policies.
• Establish metrics for adoption, workflow completion, and resource utilization across the platform.
• Build business cases for future investment based on pilot results and market opportunities.
• Manage the full product lifecycle from initial discovery and prototyping through launch and continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Life Sciences, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of product management experience for highly technical products, platforms, cloud services, automation systems, or enterprise software.
• Experience defining product vision, roadmaps, requirements, and success measures for complex customer-facing products.
• Experience translating detailed workflows from technically demanding customers into scalable product capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment across cloud platforms, distributed systems, workflow orchestration, data platforms, APIs, or automation systems.
• Experience with robotics, lab automation, industrial automation, scientific workflows, AI-enabled systems, or hardware-software products (preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to make trade-offs among scope, customer value, safety, reliability, cost, and time to market.
• Experience defining and evaluating pilot programs with measurable business and operational outcomes.