Senior Technical Program Manager - Autonomous Vehicles

We are searching for a creative and expert Senior Technical Program Manager to help us bring NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle solution out to the world! You will work with hardworking and dedicated multi-functional engineering development teams across various vehicle subsystems to integrate their work into our AV SW platform, while achieving or exceeding all important NVIDIA and automotive standards & guidelines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the engineering team to come up with and handle project roadmaps, schedules, achievements and work you're doing as part of the development team.
• Coordinate release content and efforts with multiple program/engineering managers who own individual components.
• Balance risks and address problems that affect release scope, schedule and quality.
• Work closely with the leadership team to help define measures of release quality using industry standards.
• Establish metrics to assist with assessing the health of the release.
• Guide the team on driving in accurate agile/scrum manner.
• Assist in improving processes and procedures within the team.
• Help streamline day-to-day operations.
• Generate KPIs and metrics to measure progress and track trends. Be able to analyze the trends and drive improvements through them.
• Regularly communicate the program status and key issues to management and across teams within the organization

Requirements:

• BS/MS Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years recent Program/Project Management experience driving the planning and execution of software engineering projects, and releasing commercial products
• Experience handling at least few successful releases with the short release cadence in a multifaceted environment
• A consistent track record of leading and optimally delivering medium to large programs and projects, process improvements
• Shown ability to evaluate and drive adoption of new and improved process workflows in medium to large organizations
• Experience with new product introduction and program managing research teams is a plus
• Previous experience & lived a life as a software developer or software QA engineer. Understand the pressures they are under, allowing you to more successfully lead them in projects as well as process.
• Experience with Jira and/or JAMA, to the point that you can comfortably guide an engineering team how to use these tools and execute in an Agile/scrum manner
• PMP, Scrum Master certification is a plus

Nice to Have:

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, autonomy software integration and machine learning
• Experience with start-ups and/or early-stage products
• Background with automotive SW development and QNX
• Experience working with operations and fleet management
• Background with Issue triaging and diagnosis.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.