FieldAI

Technical Program Manager, Engineering & Delivery

FieldAI · Irvine, CA
Irvine, CA Closed
Applications are closed for this role. It was originally posted 2026-05-27. It’s no longer accepting applicants — see roles FieldAI is still hiring for →, or browse the live openings below.
Type
Full-time
Experience
5+ yr

Architect and implement engineering workflow improvements that measurably reduce bug cycle time — from issue identification through triage, assignment, and resolution

Redesign and consolidate our Jira project architecture into a unified workspace that eliminates fragmentation, improves cross-team visibility, and reduces overhead for engineers

Design and build triage and routing systems, automation, and integrations that remove manual friction from how issues move through the organization

Establish engineering-led delivery practices — work decomposition standards, estimation frameworks, and definition-of-done criteria — that make project execution more predictable without adding unnecessary process

Design lightweight systems that give engineering leadership accurate, real-time visibility into progress, risk, and capacity

Identify and remove structural bottlenecks in how work flows from planning through delivery, diagnosing root causes rather than treating symptoms

Build and implement end-to-end toolchain integrations that create traceability from product intent through engineering work, QA validation, and field outcomes

Define engineering-owned interfaces and contracts between functions — establishing clear, enforceable definitions of what "ready for engineering," "ready for QA," and "ready for field" actually mean

Evaluate, select, and integrate tooling that gives each function appropriate visibility without requiring manual synchronization or status reporting

  • Strong software engineering background with experience in senior engineering or technical leadership roles
  • Track record of improving engineering velocity, delivery predictability, or operational maturity in a meaningful, measurable way
  • Deep familiarity with modern engineering toolchains — CI/CD, issue tracking, project management systems, observability, and developer productivity tooling
  • Systems thinking: you see organizational friction as a design problem and approach it with the same rigor you'd apply to a distributed systems architecture
  • Experience consolidating, redesigning, or scaling engineering infrastructure and workflows across multiple teams
  • Strong ability to influence and drive adoption across teams without relying on positional authority
  • Excellent judgment about when to introduce process and when to remove it — you optimize for engineering output, not process compliance
  • Experience building or leading developer experience, engineering productivity, or engineering operations functions
  • Hands-on experience redesigning Jira, Linear, or similar project management architectures at scale
  • Background in building integrations and toolchain automation across product, engineering, QA, and field/deployment teams
  • Experience in robotics, hardware-adjacent, or field-deployed software environments where the feedback loop between engineering and the field is critical
  • Familiarity with engineering metrics and measurement (cycle time, lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR) and how to use them to drive improvement without creating perverse incentives
E
Senior Research Engineer - Manipulation
Boston, MA
Engineering
$150K–$300K
D
Senior Research Scientist - Manipulation
Boston, MA
Data & ML
$150K–$300K
E
Senior Reality Capture Engineer, Robotics Hardware
Irvine, CA
Engineering
$150K–$250K
See all live roles at FieldAI →
B
Sr. Technical Product & Program Manager, Platform Engineering
Betterment Holdings New York, NY Hybrid
Engineering
$125K–$145K
V
Sr. Technical Program Manager, Data Center & Network Delivery
Vultr Holdings Chennai, India
Engineering
A
Senior Technical Program Manager, Air Dominance & Strike, Autonomous Airpower
Anduril Industries Costa Mesa, California, United States
Engineering
$166K–$220K
A
Staff Technical Product & Program Manager, Security
Aurora Innovation Pittsburgh, PA
Engineering
$163K–$236K
See all Engineering roles →
Applications closed