Principal Technical Program Manager - Autonomous Vehicles
About the role
The Automotive Vehicles team is searching for a creative and expert Senior Technical Program Manager to help bring NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle solution to the world. You will work with hardworking and dedicated multi-functional engineering development teams across various vehicle subsystems to integrate their work into our AV SW platform, while achieving or exceeding all important NVIDIA and automotive standards & guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Work with the engineering team to come up with and handle project roadmaps, schedules, achievements and work you're doing as part of the development team.
- Cook up release content and efforts with multiple program/engineering managers who own individual components.
- Balance risks and address problems that affect release scope, schedule and quality.
- Work closely with the leadership team to help define measures of release quality using industry standards.
- Establish metrics to assist with assessing the health of the release.
- Guide the team on driving in an accurate agile/scrum manner.
- Aid in improving processes and procedures within the team.
- Streamline day-to-day operations.
- Generate KPIs and metrics to measure progress and track trends.
- Analyze trends and drive improvements through them.
- Regularly communicate the program status and key issues to management and across teams within the organization.
Requirements
- BS/MS Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 15+ years recent Program/Project Management experience driving the planning and execution of software engineering projects, and releasing commercial products
- Experience handling at least few successful releases with the short release cadence in a multifaceted environment
- A consistent track record of leading and optimally delivering medium to large programs and projects, process improvements
- Showed ability to evaluate and drive adoption of new and improved process workflows in medium to large organizations
- Experience with new product introduction and program managing research teams is a plus
- Previous experience & lived a life as a software developer or software QA engineer. Understand the pressures they are under, allowing you to more successfully lead them in projects as well as process
- Experience with Jira and/or JAMA, to the point that you can comfortably guide an engineering team how to use these tools and execute in an Agile/scrum manner
- PMP, Scrum Master certification is a plus
Qualifications
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, autonomy software integration and machine learning
- Background with automotive SW development and QNX
- Experience working with operations and fleet management
- Background with issue triaging and diagnosis
Skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience with agile methodologies and tools
- Knowledge of automotive standards and guidelines
Benefits
Wage range: $240,000 - $379,500 per year
Eligible for equity and benefits
Pay
Base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.
Schedule
Full-time
Application Instructions
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 18, 2026.
Equal Opportunity Employer
NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.