Aurora is looking for a Technical Program Manager to enable future business goals by partnering with senior engineering leaders to craft coherent architectures that facilitate rapid development and transferability of driving technology between hardware and cloud platforms.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Product Manager, or Engineering Manager in autonomous systems, robotics, embedded systems, or software development, with an architecture focus.
- Strong technical aptitude and an ability to understand complex technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, and risks; ability to work closely with engineers.
- Strong experience in project management; practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and flexibility to adapt and apply them when appropriate to improve and not hinder team execution velocity, quality, and efficacy.
- Experience with Pytorch, Tensorrt, CUDA, and/or DRIVE OS.
- Experience with big software platform migrations or optimizing hardware resources (data, memory, compute).
- Experience with managing programs with a mix of internal and external (third party) stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with senior executives and engineering leaders to drive the development of architectural proposals, evaluate new technologies, and execute efforts to de-risk architectural decisions across hardware and software systems.
- Coordinate with various engineering teams/departments to ensure that the architecture meets business objectives and enables transitions through various generations of hardware.
- Work with a team of experts from across Aurora to take complex, highly ambiguous challenges and transform them into actionable architectural solutions and improvements that can be implemented by teams across Aurora.
- Drive successful definitions, recommendations, decisions, execution, and delivery of major architectural initiatives, including: Foundational toolchain and performance efforts for Automotive SoC-based compute platforms
- Optimizing the Aurora Driver Architecture for our scale-generation vehicle platform and Aurora Driver Hardware Kit
- Driving architectural improvements to Autonomy stacks to enable more efficient onboard execution at scale
- Develop detailed and credible engineering plans for architectural projects.
Other
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adjust communication based on audience, including senior executives.
- Ability to work in either Mountain View, CA, with occasional travel expected to support architectural de-risking activities and cross-functional team alignment.
- A graduate degree in a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Experience with managing programs with a mix of internal and external (third party) stakeholders.
