Technical Program Manager, T-Labs at Trener Robotics · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

As Technical Program Manager for T-Labs, you will be the operational backbone of our R&D group. You will lead program execution across both robot learning and edge compute: coordinating the training and evaluation of robot learning models, bringing those models onto edge AI hardware, and keeping researchers, engineers, hardware partners and product teams aligned on milestones and dependencies.
This is a hands-on, technically fluent role. You will bring depth in at least one of these technical areas and the ability to work effectively across both. You will understand the work well enough to scope programs with technical leads, spot risk early, challenge timelines, and translate between research and production.
Run T-Labs programs end to end
Own planning, dependencies, risks and delivery coordination for multiple concurrent R&D programs, including customer-funded research and partner programs, from early exploration to production handoff.
Build and maintain roadmaps, dependency maps and risk registers that leadership can trust.
Run the team's operating cadence: sprint planning, technical reviews, stage gates and status reporting to the VP R&D and executive team.
Work with technical leads to define experiments, evaluation criteria and decision points; revise plans as evidence changes, and escalate tradeoffs early.
Define clear handoff criteria with product and engineering teams so research outputs transition into product development with agreed ownership and acceptance criteria.
Identify capability and staffing gaps with technical leads, and support hiring plans with leadership.
Robot learning and model programs
Coordinate the full model lifecycle for robot learning work (e.g. imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action and foundation models for manipulation): data collection, training runs, evaluation, sim-to-real validation and deployment.
Plan and track data collection campaigns, teleoperation and demonstration capture, labeling, and dataset versioning.

Technical Program Manager, T-Labs

Responsibilities

Qualification

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Trener Robotics

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