Senior Product Manager - In-Vehicle Autonomy & Operator UX

Cssmerge; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Atoms in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the operator and in-vehicle experience across our autonomous platforms. You will define how the system communicates state and intent, manage fault handling, and ensure clear, actionable information is delivered to operators inside the vehicle and around it.

You will collaborate across engineering, safety, hardware, and deployment to define requirements, validate with real operators, and drive field research.

Qualifications

• Requires end-to-end ownership of a human-facing product, from requirements through release and measured adoption.
• Experience designing for constrained operating conditions (heavy vibration, glare, limited connectivity).
• Demonstrated human factors practice with usability testing on real user populations.

Responsibilities

• In-Vehicle Experience: Own what the person in the vehicle sees and does while the system is driving, including state, intent, confidence, and fault presentation.
• Operator Experience: Own the operators and on-site personnel experience around autonomous machines.
• Safety-Critical Interaction: Define commands, confirmations, degraded states, and stop behavior with safety and engineering.
• Field Research: Conduct primary research with operators on site and translate findings into decisions.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Human-machine interface

Cross-functional partnership

Usability testing

Product requirements

Field research

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical/design/related field

Job description

Atoms in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the operator and in-vehicle experience across our autonomous platforms. You will define how the system communicates state and intent, manage fault handling, and ensure clear, actionable information is delivered to operators inside the vehicle and around it.

You will collaborate across engineering, safety, hardware, and deployment to define requirements, validate with real operators, and drive field research.