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Customer Program Manager - Automotive

NVIDIA · Santa Clara, CA · 4 days ago
Information TechnologyFull-time

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead customer-facing automotive programs involving AI, data science, ADAS, autonomous driving, in-cabin AI, perception, simulation, or software-defined vehicle platforms.
  • Partner with customers and internal teams to define and execute data campaign initiatives, including data collection goals, sensor coverage, scenario targets, edge-case discovery, labeling needs, dataset readiness, and feedback loops into model development.
  • Define program schedules, achievements and work based on the customer roadmap and requirements.
  • Translate customer requirements into specific tasks for all functional areas and actively collect, track and drive all issues to closure.
  • Communicate the issue status to the customer and internal teams located on different geographical zones.
  • Identify and accurately represent the priority of issues and raise them appropriately.
  • Work closely with the engineering, quality, logistics and the Sales team to resolve technical and logistic issues.
  • Regularly communicate the program status and key issues to customer and Nvidia management.

What We Need To See

  • Have 12+ years of experience in project/program management in the Automotive or Embedded Industry for electrical/electronic and software products.
  • A strong technical background and experience working with customers in an OEM environment.
  • Experience in handling global projects with multinational program members.
  • BS/MS or equivalent experience in Engineering or Computer Science, MBA with prior technical background.
  • Understanding of machine learning and data science workflows, including data ingestion, labeling, feature analysis, model training, evaluation, validation, and deployment.
  • Experience supporting or leading data campaign initiatives for automotive, robotics, autonomy, perception, mapping, simulation, or other AI-heavy domains.
  • Exposure to ML Ops, data operations, cloud AI infrastructure, GPU-accelerated training, simulation pipelines, synthetic data, or large-scale data management.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

  • Track record in managing complex hardware and software product development preferably in automotive industry.
  • Prior experience in ADAS, Autonomous Driving, Mapping or Data Collection projects.
  • Leadership in coordination of different functional teams towards the same target.
  • Good communication, presentation, negotiation, and organization skills.
  • Dedicated and able to work with minimum supervision.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Schedule

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 13, 2026.

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