# Software Technical Program Manager, Systems

**Company:** [Nuro](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nuro)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $132k – $198k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Systems Engineering, Scenario-Based Testing, Autonomy Validation, Simulation, Fault Injection, Fmea, Requirements Traceability, V&V Methodology, Carla, Lgsvl
**Posted:** 2026-03-12

> Owns technical validation of autonomous vehicle systems, defining scenarios, coverage strategies, fault injection, and simulation campaigns. Requires 4-6 years in systems engineering or TPM roles in AV/robotics with strong V&V and scenario testing expertise.

## Job Description

## About the Work

### Scenario & Coverage Strategy
- Understand taxonomy of challenging scene sets for autonomy validation, ensuring coverage of safety-critical, edge-case, and adversarial scenarios from real-world data and systems requirements.
- Own technical framework for measuring validation coverage, identifying gaps, and engineering decisions to close them.
- Partner with systems engineers to translate requirements and failure modes into testable scenario definitions.

### Large-Scale Simulation
- Drive technical design of simulation campaigns: scenario selection, variation strategies, metrics, and results interpretation.
- Ensure campaign design maximizes signal with appropriate scenarios, fidelity, and actionable results.
- Identify inconclusive simulation results and drive resolution.

### Fault Injection & Unhealthy Autonomy
- Own strategy for fault injection and degraded-mode validation: defining failure conditions, induction methods, and acceptable behaviors.
- Collaborate on fault injection test matrices from FMEA and failure mode analysis.
- Ensure unhealthy behaviors are root-caused and tied to requirements/safety goals.

### Requirements Traceability & Systems Engineering
- Maintain traceability between requirements, scenarios/tests, and validation evidence for audit-ready coverage.
- Apply systems engineering principles: interface dependencies, assumptions, V&V mapping.
- Bridge systems development and validation execution.

### Technical Collaboration & Domain Expertise
- Provide deep understanding of autonomy stack and validation to spot gaps and ask hard questions.
- Partner with Systems Validation TPM on technical alignment without duplicating planning.
- Communicate validation logic and gaps to stakeholders.

## About You
- 4–6 years in systems engineering, autonomy validation, or technically-focused TPM role in AV, robotics, or aerospace.
- Deep familiarity with scenario-based testing, coverage-driven validation, or autonomy stack evaluation.
- Strong systems engineering fundamentals: requirements traceability, V&V, interface management, failure mode analysis.
- Ability to engage technically with engineers.
- Comfortable with ambiguous technical problems.

## Bonus
- Experience with large-scale simulation campaigns, scenario variation, results analysis.
- Familiarity with SOTIF (ISO 21448), UL 4600, safety-of-the-intended-functionality.
- Background in ODD analysis, scenario taxonomy, safety case.
- Experience with simulation platforms like CARLA, LGSVL, or proprietary AV sims.

## Compensation
Base pay range: $132,300 - $198,450. Eligible for annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

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