Principal Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Motional's Technical Programs team as an Autonomy Principal TPM to lead integrated software programs. Partner with engineering leaders, ensuring a well-defined technical roadmap aligned with company milestones. Drive efficient program management, improve prioritization, identify gaps, and manage escalations. Proactively communicate risks and work with teams to mitigate them. Scope, staff, and deliver autonomous vehicle capabilities. Define communication processes, and report to leadership. Understand technical implementation and propose alternatives. Champion development efficiency and act as a proxy for engineering leads. This role demands strong leadership, excels in ambiguity, and drives alignment across various teams.

Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years experience in program management roles leading complex multi-disciplinary engineering programs
• Knowledge of autonomous systems and development processes e.g. perception, prediction, hardware, model training, simulation
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics or a relevant technical field
• Strong written and oral communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to diverse audiences
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced work environment across time zones with a can-do attitude

Responsibilities

• Partner deeply with engineering leaders driving autonomy-led programs across teams and organizations
• Ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well-defined and integrated with top-level programs
• Instill an efficient program management mindset and workflow across the teams
• Enable and accelerate complex programs by improving prioritization clarity, identifying gaps and blind spots, and managing healthy issue escalations
• Proactively identify and communicate risks, working with teams to minimize impact and likelihood
• Partner with engineering leaders to scope, staff, and deliver mature AV behaviors / capabilities to achieve company milestones
• Define efficient communication processes, drive adoption, and amplify program visibility broadly
• Communicate to leadership in regular forums, contribute to executive deliverables, and provide your team’s analyses and recommendations in a clear and concise manner
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when applicable; ask questions that expose blind spots and challenge the status quo
• Champion development efficiency and be an effective proxy for engineering leads in program / organizational matters

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor junior team members
• Experience in robotics, applied AI / ML, or relevant complex technical domains
• Extensive demonstrated experience with the development lifecycle of ML models
• Extensive demonstrated experience with managing various stakeholder inputs at multiple levels

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance