Principal Product Manager Physical AI

Want to define how Physical AI applications run on Arm-based silicon?

We seek a Principal Product Manager to own representative Physical AI applications and the reusable ML and software stack beneath them. The role spans humanoids, autonomous vehicles, and robotics, connecting perception, autonomy, AI inference, middleware, tooling, simulation, and deployment into one product direction.

This Principal-level individual-contributor role turns customer problems into product choices, requirements, and measured results. It works across application, platform, silicon, and partner teams to decide what Arm should build and how developers should use it.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the product direction
• Choose target developers and representative workloads. Define the problem, desired outcome, roadmap, and product boundaries. Decide which capabilities should be common across markets and which must remain specific to humanoids, autonomous vehicles, or other robots.
• Define the application and stack
• Set requirements and interfaces across sensing, perception, state estimation, planning, control, models, inference serving, QoS, robotics middleware, system software, APIs and SDKs, simulation, deployment, and observability.
• Decide where Arm should build, integrate, partner, or preserve customer choice.
• Keep common paths simple while advanced developers retain control.
• Prove and deliver the product
• Set the backlog, milestones, quality bars, and release criteria.
• Define evaluation with representative workloads, including task success, tail latency, jitter, power, memory, failure behavior, and time to deploy.
• Use measured prototypes and reference implementations to separate capability from hypothesis and guide product and competitive claims.
• Work with customers and drive decisions
• Validate workflows and production barriers with developers, OEMs, silicon and software partners, and early customers.
• Bring product, engineering, architecture, and business leaders to clear decisions on priorities, ownership, and dependencies. Represent the product in technical reviews, roadmaps, demonstrations, and launch planning.

Vital Skills and Experience:

• Proven record owning complex technical products at Principal scope, from problem selection through delivery and adoption.
• Product management experience with developer platforms, AI/ML systems, robotics or autonomy, or products that span hardware and software.
• Technical fluency across robotics and autonomy, AI/ML workflows and inference, edge platforms, and heterogeneous compute.
• Ability to turn customer and partner workloads into product requirements, priorities, roadmaps, and release decisions.
• Experience defining benchmarks, acceptance criteria, and evidence plans for technical products.
• Clear written and verbal communication, strong product judgment, and a record of driving decisions across senior technical and business leaders.
• Technical degree in computer science, electrical or computer engineering, robotics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Products for humanoids, autonomous vehicles, industrial or mobile robots, or other real-time physical systems.
• Arm-based SoCs, heterogeneous compute, embedded Linux, or real-time operating systems.
• ROS 2, simulation, software- or hardware-in-the-loop testing, logging, replay, calibration, or updates.
• Perception, multimodal sensing, sensor fusion, data and model evaluation, compilers, runtimes, profiling, or observability.
• Functional safety, fault management, security, open-source communities, or work with OEMs and silicon partners.

What this role offers:

This role has direct influence over a product at its earliest stages and works with senior engineering, architecture, product, and business leaders.

The work moves from customer problems to measured behavior on hardware! It is an opportunity to shape how a new Physical AI team builds reusable software across applications and markets.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Salary Range:

$207,800-$281,200 per year We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.