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Release Manager

140k – 190kFoster City, CAHybrid3+ YOE
Summary

Own the software release process for autonomous vehicle systems, coordinating cross-functional teams, tracking tests, and automating release workflows to ensure safe, reliable deployments.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Work with all stakeholders in Development, QA, and vehicle operations to assemble cross-organizational project teams, tracking progress and delivering towards release milestones
  • Track results of all required tests, analyze release blockers, and enable successful resolution
  • Continuously evaluate the efficiency of existing processes and procedures of change and release management and improve practices
  • Automation of existing manual release processes
  • Change management, scoping, conduct release reviews, communicate status to all stakeholders, escalation as per the SLAs

Requirements

  • 3-5+ years of experience working with large, complex products
  • Understanding of software version control systems, extensive knowledge of git and command line
  • Excellent communication (Written and Verbal) and organizational skills
  • Experience in defining release readiness criteria, ensuring all changes meet criteria prior to deployment
  • You had a manual & boring process and you automated it using Python or any other programming language & using AI tools

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with CI build systems and ability to triage failures
  • Experience working on large process improvement and/or automation projects and programs
  • Broad understanding of programming structure (makefiles, headers, code) and compilation process (compile, link) experience with multi-platform (Unix, Windows, etc.) build environments
  • Fluency in any programming language and using AI tools like cursor, claude, co-pilot, chatGPT, etc.
Skills
GitPythonCI/CDRelease ManagementChange ManagementAutomationCommand LineVersion Control
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