TPM, Thermal Systems for Autonomous Vehicles

Altentechnologyusa; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a skilled Technical Program Manager for its Vehicle Development team in Foster City, CA. You will own end-to-end delivery of critical vehicle program milestones and coordinate across hardware, software, and validation to keep programs on track.

The role requires 5+ years in technical program management for automotive, aerospace, or robotics hardware, plus a Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical program management delivering complex hardware programs in automotive, aerospace, or robotics.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep understanding of vehicle systems, development cycles, and prototype/pre-production testing.
• Expert-level capability structuring JIRA boards, workflows, and dashboards for real-time project health visibility.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of critical vehicle program milestones and proactively clear bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with hardware, attribute, controls and program teams to surface and implement recovery plans.
• Design and maintain lightweight JIRA workflows, sprint cadences, and reporting rituals to maximize engineering focus.
• Coordinate with engineers to ensure hardware, software, and validation dependencies are tightly coordinated and timelines are met.

Skills

Technical PM

JIRA expertise

Cross-functional leadership

Autonomous vehicle knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or CS

Tools

JIRA

Job description

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a skilled Technical Program Manager for its Vehicle Development team in Foster City, CA. You will own end-to-end delivery of critical vehicle program milestones and coordinate across hardware, software, and validation to keep programs on track.

The role requires 5+ years in technical program management for automotive, aerospace, or robotics hardware, plus a Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.