# Senior Technical Program Manager - Autonomous Vehicles

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salary and benefits package
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Program Management
- Software Engineering
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum
- Jira
- JAMA
- PMP
- Scrum Master

### Nice to have
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Machine Learning
- Autonomy Software Integration
- QNX
- Operations and Fleet Management
- Issue Triage and Diagnosis

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