Technical Project Manager: Vehicle System Integration

Manpower Group (USA); Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Vision plan

HSA

FSA

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Weekly pay

Job summary

ManpowerGroup is seeking a Technical Project Manager - Vehicle System Integration in Foster City, CA. You’ll lead cross-functional teams within Systems Engineering, coordinating safety analyses and system integration efforts for automotive applications.

The role emphasizes governance of system specifications, ECR management, and clear health metrics reporting to executives. Onsite in Foster City, you’ll work with a diverse, multi-disciplinary group to advance safety-critical vehicle technology.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager or Systems Engineer in automotive, aerospace, or advanced vehicle contexts.
• Deep familiarity with the systems engineering V-model lifecycle and fail-operational architectures.
• Experience leading safety workflows like SFMEA, DFMEA, FTAs with ISO 26262 / MIL-STD-882 compliance.
• Strong background in vehicle E/E system design and hardware/software interfaces.
• Proficient with project, change, and configuration management tools (JIRA, Smartsheet, Jama, Polarion, DOORS).

Responsibilities

• Manage the release train, maturity lifecycle, and governance for System Technical Specifications across program gates from PI to OKTB.
• Lead SFMEA lifecycle workshops and track actions to ensure safety mitigations are integrated into hardware/software schedules.
• Create and maintain the master dependency matrix linking engineering teams and resolve timeline disconnects.
• Oversee Engineering Change Requests, evaluate impacts on timelines and resources.
• Define and track health metrics of Systems Engineering deliverables for executive status updates.

Skills

Technical Program Manager

Systems Engineer

Safety workflows

V-model lifecycle

Cross-functional

Tools

JIRA

Smartsheet

Jama

Polarion

DOORS

Job description

ManpowerGroup is seeking a Technical Project Manager - Vehicle System Integration in Foster City, CA. You’ll lead cross-functional teams within Systems Engineering, coordinating safety analyses and system integration efforts for automotive applications.

The role emphasizes governance of system specifications, ECR management, and clear health metrics reporting to executives. Onsite in Foster City, you’ll work with a diverse, multi-disciplinary group to advance safety-critical vehicle technology.