Senior Technical Program Manager - Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

A leading technology company in California seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle solutions. The role involves managing project roadmaps, coordinating with engineering teams, and ensuring high release quality standards. Ideal candidates should have significant experience in program management within software engineering contexts, along with knowledge of agile processes. Competitive salary and equity offerings are provided.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of recent Program/Project Management experience driving software engineering projects.
• Experience handling successful releases with short release cadence.
• Previous experience as a software developer or QA engineer.

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering team to handle project roadmaps and schedules.
• Coordinate release content with multiple program/engineering managers.
• Guide the team in an agile/scrum manner.

Skills

Program/Project Management

Agile methodologies

Software engineering

Jira

Leadership

Process improvement

Education

BS/MS Computer Science or related field

Tools

JIRA

Job description

The Automotive Vehicles team is searching for a creative and expert Senior Technical Program Manager to help us bring NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle solution out to the world! We will participate in a focused effort to develop and productize ground-breaking product solutions that will redefine the world of transportation and the growing field of self-driving cars! 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. You'll find the work is exciting, fun, and relevant. We have deadlines, partners, and competition.

What you will be doing:

• 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.
• Coordinate release content and efforts with multiple program/engineering managers who own individual components.
• Balance risks and address problem that affects 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 accurate agile/scrum manner
• Assist in improving processes and procedures within the team.
• Help streamline day-to-day operations.
• Generate KPIs and metrics to measure progress and track trends. Be able to analyze the trends and drive improvements through them.
• Regularly communicate the program status and key issues to management and across teams within the organization

What we need to see:

• BS/MS Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ 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
• Shown 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 comfortable guide an engineering team how to use these tools and execute in an Agile/scrum manner
• PMP, Scrum Master certification is a plus

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, autonomy software integration and machine learning
• Experience with start-ups and/or early-stage products
• Background with automotive SW development and QNX
• Experience working with operations and fleet management
• Background with Issue triaging and diagnosis.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 160,000 USD - 253,000 USD for Level 4, and 192,000 USD - 304,750 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 7, 2025.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse 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.