System Engineering - Technical Program Manager

KPIT; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Geo Blue PPO

MetLife Dental & Vision

401(k) match

Employee discounts

Gym benefit

Job summary

KPIT in Newark, NJ seeks a seasoned Technical Program Manager to lead infotainment platforms across audio, video, and streaming domains. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage requirements, and drive delivery against aggressive schedules.

You will partner with IVI, HMI, and validation groups, prioritize defects, and shape resource plans while ensuring platform readiness across BSP and SoC bring-up efforts.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in TPM with Infotainment focus.
• Experience delivering on platform software delivery schedules with third-party dependencies.
• Strong communication to translate technical topics for management decisions.

Responsibilities

• Create program timing plans for multimedia features across audio, video, media playback, tuner and streaming sources.
• Coordinate requirements across IVI and the organization to decompose work for developers and testers.
• Drive cross-functional execution between multimedia software, audio, HMI, integration and validation teams.
• Lead bug triage and ensure timely closure of defects to meet release timing.
• Evaluate feature requests and project future resource needs against capacity.
• Maintain dependency maps between features and platform/middleware capabilities.

Skills

Infotainment TPM

Full stack system

Automotive infotainment

Multimedia expertise

Video pipelines

Media frameworks

Tuner & streaming

Android Automotive OS

Embedded Linux

QNX/RTOS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

MS Project

Gantt charts

Roadmap software

Bug triage tools

Dependency mapping tools

SoC bring-up tools

Kernel debugging

DOORS

Job description

• 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

Job Description

Responsibilities

Multimedia

• 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

Platform and board support package

• 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

Requirements

• 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.

Preferred Skills

• 8-10yrs of experience as TPM preferably with Infotainment experience and should have full stack system knowledge


• Automotive infotainment experience, particularly multimedia: audio routing and mixing, video pipelines, media frameworks, tuner and streaming integration


• Familiarity with Android Automotive OS, Embedded Linux, QNX or RTOS platform software, and hypervisor-based cockpit architectures


• Exposure to multimedia frameworks and interfaces such as ALSA, GStreamer, media HAL layers or equivalent


• Experience with cockpit SoC platforms, for example Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive, NXP i.MX, Renesas R-Car or TI Jacinto


• Understanding of infotainment power management strategy across the platform, including sleep and wake states and low-voltage power distribution behavior


• Knowledge of automotive communication protocols and services: , Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP, UDS and DoIP


• Experience with software containers, remote software deployment and OTA delivery into production vehicles


• Familiarity with secure boot, secure key management and cybersecurity requirements as they touch platform releases


• Vehicle program cadence experience: bench and vehicle build phases, software release trains, and launch readiness gates


• Tooling: Jira, Confluence, Jama for requirements tracking, Git-based workflows, and program reporting or dashboard tools


• Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262 or equivalent process exposure


• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field

Compensation and Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time KPIT employee, you are eligible for the following benefits:

• Geo Blue PPO and HSA plan.


• MetLife - Dental and Vision plan.


• Healthcare and Dependent care flexible spending account(FSA).


• 401k with employer match.


• Company-paid Basic Life and Long-term disability insurance.


• Voluntary benefits include Critical Illness, Hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft, and legal service.


• Employee Assistance Program.


• Paid Holidays.


• Employee discounts and perks.


• Gym benefit.

Required Skills

JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, Gantt Charts, Roadmap Software,Bug Triage Tools, Dependency Mapping Tools, SoC Bring-up Tools, Kernel Debugging, DOORS),IVI,BSP

Supported Skills

Android Automotive OS, Embedded Linux, QNX or RTOS,CAN, CAN FD, LIN