Autonomy Platform Integration Lead for Vehicle Systems

Frontdoor Defense; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights

Amazon RSUs

Paid time off

Job summary

Zoox is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the integration of the vehicle platform and autonomy software across perception, planning, controls, simulation, and vehicle software teams. You will own strategy, execution, and risk management for hardware and software integration, coordinating with hardware engineering, PMO, perception, and platform software groups to ensure timely deployment.

You will drive cross-functional milestones, define test plans and readiness criteria for

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical program management experience on complex software integration programs.
• Solid technical grounding in software systems; comfortable with architecture discussions across autonomy subsystems.
• Experience managing multi-team integration programs with heavy interdependencies and evolving requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills; able to align engineering, safety, and leadership around a shared plan.
• Sharp written/verbal communication and a structured approach to risk and schedule management.

Responsibilities

• Own the integration roadmap for the Vehicle autonomy platform, coordinating across perception, motion planning, controls, simulation, and vehicle software teams.
• Drive cross-team milestone planning, dependency mapping, and risk tracking for a program with many interlocking software subsystems.
• Partner with autonomy engineering and safety teams to define integration test plans, validation gates, and readiness criteria for on-road deployment.
• Run regular program syncs, milestone reviews, and executive readouts; translate technical status into clear risk/impact narratives for leadership.
• Anticipate integration risks and drive mitigation plans with engineering owners.
• Support release planning and coordination with safety, release management, and field operations teams as needed for Vehicle platform deployment.
• Continuously improve integration processes as the platform and org scale.
• Establish and evolve program management processes for a fast-moving hardware-software program.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Cross-team coordination

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Education

BS or MS in CS/Engineering

Job description

Zoox is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the integration of the vehicle platform and autonomy software across perception, planning, controls, simulation, and vehicle software teams. You will own strategy, execution, and risk management for hardware and software integration, coordinating with hardware engineering, PMO, perception, and platform software groups to ensure timely deployment.

You will drive cross-functional milestones, define test plans and readiness criteria for