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Senior Technical Program Manager - Vehicle Platform & Autonomy Integration

Leads cross-functional integration of Zoox’s vehicle autonomy platform across perception, planning, controls, simulation, and vehicle software. The role requires 8+ years of technical program management experience, strong software systems knowledge, and expertise coordinating complex, safety-critical deployments.

172k – 234k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOETechnical Program Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own the integration roadmap for the Vehicle autonomy platform, coordinating across perception, motion planning, controls, simulation, and vehicle software teams.
  • Drive cross-team milestone planning, dependency mapping, and risk tracking for a program with interlocking software subsystems.
  • Partner with autonomy engineering and safety teams to define integration test plans, validation gates, and readiness criteria for on-road deployment.
  • Run program syncs, milestone reviews, and executive readouts; translate technical status into clear risk and impact narratives for leadership.
  • Anticipate integration risks, including interface mismatches, regression risk, and simulation-to-real-world gaps, and drive mitigation plans with engineering owners.
  • Support release planning and coordination with safety, release management, and field operations teams for Vehicle platform deployment.
  • Improve integration processes as the platform and organization scale.
  • Establish and evolve program management processes, including planning cadences, milestone reviews, and launch readiness criteria, for a fast-moving hardware-software program.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 8+ years of technical program management experience, ideally on complex software integration programs involving autonomy, robotics, safety-critical systems, or large-scale distributed software.
  • Solid technical grounding in software systems, with the ability to participate in architecture discussions across perception, planning and controls, or similar autonomy subsystems.
  • Experience managing multi-team integration programs with significant interdependencies and evolving requirements.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to align engineering, safety, and leadership around a shared plan.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a structured approach to risk and schedule management.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems, robotics, or safety-critical software systems.

Skills

Technical Program Managementsoftware integrationautonomous vehiclesRoboticsperceptionmotion planningcontrolssimulationembedded softwaresystems integrationRisk Managementrelease planningvalidation testingsafety-critical systemsdistributed software

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