Embedded Automotive TPM - Infotainment & Platform

KPIT Technologies Ltd.; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Geo Blue PPO

MetLife - Dental/Vision

401k with employer match

Life insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

KPIT Technologies Ltd. in Newark, New Jersey, seeks a System Engineering - Technical Program Manager with 5-10 years of experience in embedded or platform software.

You will own cross-functional multimedia and BSP delivery, collaborate with silicon vendors, Tier-1s, and internal teams to define requirements, create schedules, and drive them to closure. Leverage strong communication to coordinate with engineering managers and PMO, manage dependencies, and drive platform readiness across audio,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical program management on embedded or platform software, including ownership of a delivery schedule that depended on a third party
• Working technical fluency in embedded platform software: board support packages, SoC bring-up, kernel and driver delivery, and the judgment to tell a platform issue from an application issue
• Demonstrated history of communicating with engineering managers on technical topics, distilling detail into decisions, and driving those decisions to closure
• Experience managing silicon vendors, Tier 1 suppliers or external software partners against committed dates and quality gates
• Experience analyzing and decomposing requirements into work tasks, and running defect triage across organizational boundaries
• Ability to build and maintain dependency maps between feature commitments and platform readiness, and to communicate the consequences of a slip clearly
• Strong written and verbal communication, comfortable escalating to director and PMO level with a recommendation rather than a status.

Responsibilities

• Create program timing plans for multimedia features across audio, video, media playback, tuner and streaming sources, based on available resources and required features for the software teams
• Work with cross-functional teams inside IVI and across the organization to evaluate, develop and clarify requirements, then decompose them into consumable work tasks for developers and testers
• Drive cross-functional execution between multimedia software, audio, HMI, integration and validation teams
• Prioritize and drive software defects to closure to meet software release timing, leading bug triage where next steps on open issues are identified and assigned
• Evaluate incoming feature requests and identify future resource needs against program capacity
• Maintain the dependency map between multimedia features and the platform and middleware capabilities they rely on
• Own the BSP delivery schedule with the silicon vendor and Tier 1, covering SoC bring-up, kernel, device drivers, hardware abstraction layers, power management and board revisions
• Drive platform milestone readiness: bring-up gates, BSP drops, integration branches and hand-off points into application teams
• Manage dependencies for the engineering team including procurement of development benches, sample boards and test platforms in support of execution
• Track platform defects and non-functional targets such as boot and resume time, memory footprint, thermal behavior, power states and audio and video latency against program commitments
• Run the regular cadence with vendor program managers, and hold go and no-go reviews where the technical merits of open issues are weighed to make a release decision
• Communicate program status, progress and risks to stakeholders, escalating decisions needed to the heads of PMO

Skills

Technical program management

Embedded software

Cross-functional leadership

Requirement decomposition

Vendor management

Communication

Dependency mapping

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

MS Project

Roadmap Software

Bug triage tools

SoC bring-up tools

DOORS

IVI

BSP

Job description

KPIT Technologies Ltd. in Newark, New Jersey, seeks a System Engineering - Technical Program Manager with 5-10 years of experience in embedded or platform software.

You will own cross-functional multimedia and BSP delivery, collaborate with silicon vendors, Tier-1s, and internal teams to define requirements, create schedules, and drive them to closure. Leverage strong communication to coordinate with engineering managers and PMO, manage dependencies, and drive platform readiness across audio,