Product Manager, Control & Safety Ecosystem

FORT Robotics

Product Manager for FORT’s Control & Safety Ecosystem overseeing the intelligent control layer and safety-critical core. Engaging with customers and ensuring compliance, security, and product strategy alignment for growth.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudRTOS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and execute the 12-month roadmap for the platform’s control & safety layers, prioritizing innovations that drive autonomy & machine intelligence.
Lead the discovery phase by conducting various forms of research & engaging with stakeholders to identify needs, ensuring customer-centric requirements are established before technical development begins.
Position FORT’s safety-critical architecture as a primary market differentiator, ensuring the product vision aligns with global standards and customer trust.
Lead technical proposal efforts for high-stakes innovative projects. Identify and target new verticals that align with the platform vision, ensuring FORT remains the standard for safety governance across industries.
Orchestrate a tool-agnostic requirement architecture that drives simplicity and clarity for engineering teams while maintaining rigorous compliance with ISO 9001 and SIL standards.
Act as the strategic lead for global regulatory shifts (ex. EU Machinery Regulation, Cyber Resilience Act), ensuring the platform remains ahead of compliance curves.
Maintain expert knowledge of and ensure product compliance with key functional safety standards, including ISO 13849 and IEC 61508.
Proactively monitor the evolving security landscape, integrating security-by-design principles into all functional requirements.
Own the requirement lifecycle for safety-critical hardware-software interfaces and controls integration.
Conduct high-level trade studies and impact analysis to ensure technical alignment across all platform layers, minimizing risk and maximizing system reliability for existing and new projects.
Partner with Quality Engineering and Safety teams to oversee certification efforts (e.g., SIL 3) and ensure the control layer meets the highest "Definition of Done" standards.
Distill complex system architectures into clear, value-driven narratives for executive leadership and external partners.
Streamline the transition of features through the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC), ensuring that compliance processes support rather than hinder development velocity.
Monitor field data and support trends to identify systemic improvements, ensuring the long-term stability and scalability of the control ecosystem.
Act as the Product Owner, managing the control backlog and ensuring all product decisions are grounded in validated metrics.
Partner with Marketing and Sales to develop technical collateral, user guidance, and launch strategies for new cloud and data products.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of experience in Product Management or Systems Engineering within high-integrity environments (ex. aerospace, robotics, or medical).
Deep understanding of functional safety principles and the ability to manage products at the intersection of complex logic and physical machine control.
Expert knowledge of the Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) and experience operating within Agile/Scrum frameworks for complex systems.
Proficient in Monday.com and Jira for roadmap and project management; experienced with advanced requirement management platforms and system modeling tools.
Experienced with embedded systems, Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), and safety-critical hardware/software integration.
Proven ability to support business development for complex government and industrial contracts, with a focus on creating new market opportunities.
Strong collaborative skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Extremely driven to achieve aggressive goals, with demonstrable motivation aligned to the company's core mission.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

functional safety principlesProduct Development Life Cycle (PDLC)AgileScrumembedded systemsReal-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)safety-critical hardware/software integrationrequirement managementsystem modeling

Soft Skills

collaborative skillsinfluence cross-functional teamsdriven to achieve goalscustomer-centric requirementsstrategic leadershipclear communicationstakeholder engagementrisk managementproblem-solving

Certifications

SIL 3