Senior Technical Program Manager - Development Ecosystem

Responsibilities

• Own and drive complex cross-functional Platform projects across simulation, validation, CI/CD, ML infrastructure, and visualization tools to provide a robust end-to-end development ecosystem, improve autonomy development efficiency, and shorten time-to-validation.
• Define project scope, milestones, and success metrics for platform capabilities, explicitly tying them to developer productivity, iteration speed, test throughput, and safety validation timelines, and aligning outcomes with the broader autonomy roadmap.
• Create and maintain an integrated project plan of record (sprint, quarter, year) that unifies platform team roadmaps into a single execution and risk-management view, with clear critical paths to autonomy feature readiness and validation gates.
• Lead cross-functional planning and high-velocity execution across Simulation, Validation, Tools, and Infrastructure teams, proactively resolving dependencies and blockers that slow builds, tests, or validation, and driving timely, evidence-based decisions.
• Drive transparency and accountability in the development ecosystem by clarifying ownership, interfaces, deliverables, and integration checkpoints, and by establishing governance cadences and reporting that highlight autonomy development efficiency, test capacity, and validation risk.
• Identify and resolve systemic issues in the development workflow (e.g., flaky tests, bottlenecked simulation capacity, long triage loops), and continuously evolve Technical Project Management practices for platform work, including tooling, processes, and mentoring other TPMs focused on autonomy efficiency and validation outcomes.

Requirements

• 6+ years program/project management experience within a software, automotive, aerospace, robotics, or mobility-related industry.
• Knowledge of the AD/ADAS development ecosystem for in-vehicle and off-vehicle stack.
• Proven track record of leading large projects to successful delivery spanning cross functional engineering organizations of 100+ stakeholders.
• Experience driving technical projects in ambiguity, with only high level direction across distributed teams and diverse business cultures.
• Experience with establishing and evolving projects operations and decision making structures adapting to team culture and operating constraints.

Qualifications

• Experience in Autonomous Vehicle projects, Automotive, or OEM/Tier-1 environments.
• Experience in the development of autonomy features for L2/L4 systems.
• Proficiency in Business level Japanese.
• Nice to have: PMP/PMI or other Project Management certifications.

Skills

• Deep operational expertise in the development ecosystem in support of the autonomous driving stack and product.
• A strong cross-functional communication and a data-driven approach to ensure continuous improvements on engineering velocity.
• A genuine interest in connecting the on-board software running on vehicles with the off-board stack such as simulation, data and ML infrastructure.

Pay

The base pay for this position ranges from $140,000 - $230,000 a year. Your base salary is one part of your total compensation. We offer a base salary, short term and long term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Schedule

Your schedule is flexible and can be arranged to fit your needs.