Full-Time
Senior Technical Program Manager
BrightAI
51-200 employees
AI-powered proactive asset monitoring for infrastructure
No salary listed
Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- 6+ years of experience in building and leading strong engineering teams
- Knowledge of the full life-cycle of product development
- Demonstrated track record of successfully transforming enterprise technology processes that touch multiple disciplines
- Experience with technology operations and support, cloud-based technologies
- Deep hands-on technical skills
- Familiarity with software, hardware, and firmware solutions
- Excellent project management skills, experience working in a matrix organization
- Leadership skills; go-getter personality with ability to excite others about a project
- Exhibit effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to handle ambiguity
- Own the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects
- Plan every phase in the project’s life cycle, from the very beginning idea phases through the closure or post-closure monitoring phases
- Develop logical solutions to business problems by asking questions, thorough examination, coordination, and collaboration with decision makers
- Work with product team in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for clients
- Team with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development
- Prioritize and manage multiple projects, often moderately complex projects
- Ensure products are delivered on time and within budget
- Maintain knowledge of advancements in product technologies
- Understand the impact of emerging business trends and their implications
- Experience with digital transformation projects using AI and IoT
- Proficiency in Linux and Ubuntu
- Agile knowledge
- Development background, including Linux (yocto), Docker
- Previous startup experience
BrightAI provides an AI and IoT platform, Stateful, that monitors critical infrastructure in real time and manages assets proactively. It collects data from sensors, drones, and robotics, and uses multimodal AI to detect issues, predict failures, and deliver actionable insights to field teams. The system can retrofit legacy infrastructure, enabling large service companies to modernize without replacing systems, with asset visibility, wearables, and autonomous inspections supported by edge computing. BrightAI targets utilities, water, HVAC, and manufacturing customers, aiming to shift infrastructure management from reactive to proactive and create high switching costs through an integrated hardware-software stack.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$66M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2019
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $80M annual revenue from six enterprises like Osmose before external funding.
- $51M Series A in July 2025 from Khosla Ventures fuels SF headquarters expansion.
- Azuria Water Solutions automates pipeline inspections boosting efficiency gains.
What critics are saying
- Cognite erodes market share with $100M+ Equinor contracts in 12-18 months.
- Uptake Technology steals manufacturing customers using 10-year data moats in 6-12 months.
- SparkCognition sues for IP infringement halting deployments in 18-24 months.
What makes BrightAI unique
- Stateful platform retrofits AI onto legacy infrastructure for proactive asset management.
- Deploys 250,000 AI endpoints across 25,000 locations for real-time flaw detection.
- Integrates sensors, drones, robotics with multimodal AI for utilities and manufacturing.
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6 month growth
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↓ -4%2 year growth
↓ -8%BrightAI, a San Francisco-based startup, raised a $51 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures and Inspired Capital, valuing the company at around $300 million. The company, founded by Alex Hawkinson, uses AI for infrastructure maintenance tasks like pest control and power pole inspections. BrightAI's platform, Stateful, employs custom semiconductors and AI models. The startup has raised a total of $78 million.
BrightAI closes $51M in funding from Khosla Ventures and Inspired Capital to bring Physical AI to the world's essential services.
BrightAI, a San Francisco, CA-based company bringing AI into the physical world to power smarter, more resilient infrastructure, raised $51m in Series A funding
BrightAI Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to help companies maintain physical assets, today announced that it has closed a $51 million funding round.
BrightAI announced a $51 million Series A funding round to enhance its AI-driven infrastructure solutions.