Autonomous Vehicle Safety Assurance Technical Program Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the integrated execution model for SAFE-ADS operating-plan initiatives, including objectives , milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, decisions, and deliverables.
• Translate product requirements, program milestones, and operating -plan commitments into clear workstream charters, roadmaps, delivery plans, and ownership models.
• Coordinate planning-cycle updates and ensure changes to scope, priorities, dependencies, and capacity are reflected across relevant plans.
• Establish governance, status reporting, action tracking, decision logs, escalation paths, and program reviews that keep execution visible and predictable.
• Drive risk mitigation and recovery plans, escalating technical, schedule, resource, and dependency issues with decision-ready recommendations.
• Partner with engineering, operations, quality, Legal, and GPSSC stakeholders on incident response, investigations, corrective actions, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Improve workflows, dashboards, automations, and data quality across Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, SharePoint , requirements tools, and related systems.
• Manage dependencies among human-factors studies, operational data, safety requirements, validation criteria, readiness assessments, and program milestones.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, systems engineering, robotics, safety engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience leading complex technical programs in autonomous vehicles, ADAS, software-intensive systems, systems engineering, product safety, safety assurance, or another safety-critical domain.
• At least 3 years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, software delivery, systems engineering leadership, or an equivalent role with responsibility for execution across multiple…
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional programs with multiple workstreams, stakeholders, dependencies, and enterprise-level visibility.
• Strong program management capabilities, including integrated planning, roadmap and milestone management, dependency tracking, risk and issue management, governance, change control, resource planning, and executive…
• Experience translating ambiguous technical objectives into structured execution plans, measurable outcomes, clear ownership, and decision-ready reporting.
• Experience working with software development lifecycles, software validation, test and verification activities, release planning, CI/CD or equivalent engineering workflows, and production-readiness practices.
• Working knowledge of requirements management, end-to-end traceability, configuration management, impact analysis, evidence management, and assessment processes.