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Product Lead - Formic Cortex

Formic

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Location:
United States

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Category:
IT - Software Development

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Contract Type:
Not provided

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Salary:

135000.00 - 175000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

As the Product Lead for Formic Cortex, you will build the intelligence layer that transforms frontline operational expertise into scalable processes, software, automation, and AI systems. Your work will redefine how Formic deploys, maintains, and scales systems by converting manual workflows with automated, repeatable, and elegant improvements. You’ll embed with various teams - including Deployment, Solutions, and Production Optimization - to capture their decision logic, map their processes, uncover bottlenecks, and translate real-world operations into intelligent systems that drive productivity and reliability. Over time, you’ll shape the engine that automates site evaluation, robot configuration, simulation, validation, and fleet management. This role is cross-functional, experimental, and entrepreneurial—ideal for someone eager to move fast, test bold ideas, and push the limits of what robotics, automation, and AI can achieve in a rapidly scaling environment.

Job Responsibility:

  • Translate real-world decision criteria into structured logic, requirements, and clear system definitions
  • Define the architecture and constraints for tools that ensure consistent execution across operational teams
  • Set measurable targets for improvements and verify that delivered systems achieve those outcomes
  • Create internal products that increase accuracy, speed, and reliability across deployment and support activities
  • Design user flows, interfaces, and data models that streamline complex technical work
  • Partner with engineering to deliver features aligned with technical feasibility and operational priorities
  • Build mechanisms that validate system performance and confirm readiness before field deployment
  • Introduce monitoring and diagnostic capabilities that surface early issues and inform timely action
  • Support the development of structured playbooks and reference frameworks that raise organizational consistency
  • Improve data pathways and integrations to enhance the flow of information between teams and systems
  • Align stakeholders around requirements, tradeoffs, and timelines for key initiatives
  • Manage initiative-level planning to move projects from concept to delivery with clarity and momentum
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their fit for internal operational needs
  • Drive adoption of new tools through training, rollout planning, and continuous feedback loops

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, robotics deployment, automation engineering, or building operational tooling
  • Strong systems thinking skills with the ability to deconstruct complex workflows and translate them into structured logic, requirements, and scalable products
  • Proven ability to work with technical subject-matter experts (engineers, technicians, operators) and convert expertise into repeatable tools, processes, and system logic
  • Experience with AI, automation, or simulation technologies, or demonstrated ability to learn emerging technologies quickly
  • Familiarity with manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics integration, or field-based deployment environments—or experience building products that support these environments
  • Comfort operating in 0→1 or high-ambiguity environments, making clear decisions with incomplete information
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, especially when aligning diverse teams around requirements, tradeoffs, and technical constraints
  • Experience working closely with engineering teams, including defining requirements, scoping technical work, and managing iterative development cycles.
  • Ability to run experiments, validate concepts, and iterate rapidly using data, user insights, and fast feedback loops
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives, dependencies, and stakeholders simultaneously
  • Familiarity with modern product and design tools (e.g., Jira, Figma, Notion) and comfort creating lightweight specs, mockups, and proof-of-concept prototypes
  • Willingness to visit customer sites, deployment environments, or manufacturing facilities as needed to understand real-world constraints

Nice to have:

  • Hands-on experience deploying robotics or automation systems in real production or field environments
  • Experience building internal tools or platforms that support technicians, field engineers, or operational teams
  • Background in controls, industrial robotics, PLCs, or hardware-in-the-loop testing
  • Experience applying AI/ML to physical-world problems such as predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, or configuration intelligence
  • Familiarity with simulation frameworks or digital-twin environments used for validation, configuration, or virtual commissioning
What we offer:
  • Equity in Formic
  • Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage: 99% covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans, with 75% coverage for dependents
  • Additional Fully Covered Insurance Benefits: FSA & DCFSA, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Company-sponsored 401(k)
  • Home Office Stipend
  • Monthly Cell-Phone Reimbursement
  • Flexible Time-Off
  • Paid Company Holidays

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 08, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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