Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company focused on supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. Backed by Khosla and a16z.
About the role
Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. Our ML systems don't live in a vacuum — they run chemistry and process simulators, see and act in our plants through sensors and robotic systems, and increasingly move toward autonomous industrial process and chemical operations.
What they're looking for
- 4–8+ years in technical product management, ML platform or robotics product roles, or equivalent experience leading cross-disciplinary technical programs
- Comfortable being the only PM in a highly technical room — you know when to drive a decision, when to defer to engineers, and how to build credibility without being the most technical person there
- Enough depth in ML systems — training, evaluation, deployment, perception, simulation — to earn credibility with both ML engineers and software engineers, and to know when a technical answer is a good one
- Track record of bringing structure to ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives: setting direction, aligning stakeholders, and owning outcomes end-to-end
- Strong prioritization and tradeoff skills — you know when to say no, and you say it visibly
- Exceptional written and verbal communication across audiences, from ML engineers to operators to executives
More about this role
Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. Our ML systems don't live in a vacuum — they run chemistry and process simulators, see and act in our plants through sensors and robotic systems, and increasingly move toward autonomous industrial process and chemical operations.
We're hiring a Technical Product Manager to be the single product owner for machine learning and industrial robotics — the ML platform, the simulators it runs, and the perception and robotics initiatives built on it — and to own the seam between our applied AI/ML organization and our software engineering organization. Today this work is split across technical leads with no one setting direction across the whole. Your job is to change that: decide what the ML organization pursues...
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