Technical Program Manager

Title: Technical Program Manager

Industry: Autonomous Vehicle Technology

Location: Foster City, CA

Duration: Approximately 6 months

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical program management for firmware and embedded software across sensor and perception hardware, compute platforms, BSPs, bootloaders, and infotainment ECUs.
• Develop and drive firmware release plans aligned with EVT, DVT, PVT, vehicle development, validation, production readiness, and sustaining milestones.
• Coordinate hardware, firmware, validation, functional safety, manufacturing, procurement, systems engineering, vehicle development, suppliers, and contract manufacturers to manage dependencies and deliverables.
• Manage manufacturing firmware activities, including factory flashing, provisioning, secure key injection, end-of-line testing, version control, and firmware content for hardware build events.
• Establish program reporting, risk mitigation, defect-triage, and decision-making processes to remove blockers and communicate status to engineering teams and leadership.

Requirements

• 6+ years of technical or engineering program management experience supporting firmware or embedded software development programs.
• Demonstrated experience taking embedded products from requirements and architecture through hardware bring-up, integration, validation, manufacturing, production release, and sustaining activities.
• Direct experience with manufacturing firmware processes, embedded software release management, defect triage, branching strategies, code freezes, release criteria, and final sign-off.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent embedded systems experience; advanced degree or PMP certification is a plus.
• Strong cross-functional communication and influence skills, with experience using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Gantt-based scheduling tools, Git workflows, and continuous integration environments; familiarity with bootloaders, secure boot, Linux BSPs, device drivers, sensor interfaces, diagnostics, and OTA updates is preferred.

Skills

• Technical Program Management
• Firmware
• Embedded Systems
• Hardware Bring-Up
• Release Management
• Manufacturing Integration
• BSPs and Bootloaders
• Functional Safety
• Autonomous Vehicles
• Cross-Functional Leadership

Hourly rate is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by WorkGenius.

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