Senior Technical Program Manager
BREAKFAST Studio (kinetic art)
BREAKFAST Studio designs and builds large-scale kinetic robotic sculptures for public installations and private collections. The Senior Technical Program Manager will own schedules and program delivery for a six-person senior design and engineering team, managing Asana, estimates, client installs and the weekly program rhythm.
What you’ll do
- Own every schedule in Asana
- Pressure-test estimates
- Run the weekly rhythm
- Flag slips the day you know
- Deal with clients through install
What they’re looking for
- 8–12 years experience (TPM role)
- Fluent across at least two of mech/EE/firmware/software/ID
- Ability to own a thing alone and write plainly
Skills
- Asana: schedule ownership, program management, weekly rhythm
- Robotics / Hardware: robotic sculptures, hardware+software TPM, consumer hardware, instruments
- Mechanical / Electrical / Firmware / Software / Industrial Design: mech, EE, firmware, software, ID
- KiCad: schematic, layout, revision
- Motor control: stepper, BLDC, real motor control, drive tuning
- RS-485: RS-485 bus, bus architecture
- Ethernet: Ethernet bus architecture
- Embedded C: embedded C, firmware
- Linux: Linux host
- Power / EMI / Thermal: power, EMI, thermal
The post
BREAKFAST Studio (kinetic art) | Senior Technical Program Manager · Senior Electrical & Firmware Engineer | Brooklyn Navy Yard, NYC | ONSITE | Full-time | https://theartistbreakfast.com
We're the studio behind the artist BREAKFAST. We design and build his robotic sculptures for the Venice Biennale, Rockefeller Center, the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, Tiffany & Co. in New York, Dubai and Seoul, and private collections around the world. The largest is the world's largest kinetic sculpture: 53 feet wide, nearly 3,000 motorized tiles driven by live wind and tide data, aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. No screens, no projectors. Each piece is hundreds to thousands of motors on an RS-485 bus under a Linux host, built to run for a decade with nobody watching it, and every board, line of firmware and bracket is designed and built by 17 people in our Brooklyn studio. See them move: https://theartistbreakfast.com/works
Senior Technical Program Manager: the artist's person on the ground with a six-person senior design and engineering team. You own every schedule in Asana, pressure-test estimates, run the weekly rhythm, flag slips the day you know, and deal with clients through install. Hardware+software TPM or producer background (robotics, consumer hardware, instruments), 8–12 years, fluent across at least two of mech/EE/firmware/software/ID. $150–200k base + profit share.
Senior Electrical & Firmware Engineer: own the electronics end to end. KiCad schematic→layout→revision, stepper/BLDC drive tuning, RS-485/Ethernet bus architecture, embedded C, production test fixtures, field-failure analysis. 10+ years shipping electronics you personally owned; real motor control; power/EMI/thermal; prototype→CM. $140–200k base + profit share.
No art background needed. We care whether you're sharp, can own a thing alone, and write plainly.
Apply at https://theartistbreakfast.com/jobs and mention HN. The "what makes you right for this" box is the part we read.