Senior / Lead Technical Program Manager, Platform Software

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Define and maintain integrated platform software program plans covering key milestones, cross-team dependencies, and ensure on-time delivery.
• Partner with Hardware Platform Managers to coordinate physical infrastructure, onboard software, and embedded systems work needed to bring up different platforms.
• Ensure all stakeholder inputs are captured and integrated into program plans before design commitments lock in.
• Build and enforce dependency maps across Physical Infrastructure, Onboard Software, Embedded Systems, Hardware and Operations, identify the critical path, and ensure every dependency has an owner and an ETA.
• Own reporting into executive forums. Surface risks early with data-backed Path to Green options.
• Track platform software releases, bring-up and test campaigns, ensuring test coverage, sign-off readiness, and milestone alignment across teams.
• Build cross-functional roadmaps that give physical infrastructure, onboard software, and embedded systems a shared line of sight on interdependencies and sequencing.
• Champion tools to capture the single source of truth for program work, ensuring consistency across programs.

Job requirements

• 5+ years of technical program management experience, with a strong focus on cross-functional software integration programs for hardware platforms.
• Demonstrated experience working across teams with meaningfully different development cadences (e.g., robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, or defense systems).
• Possess a deep understanding of software development lifecycles.
• Proven ability to build cross-functional program structure from scratch: dependency maps, risk registries, executive reporting, and milestone tracking.
• Strong written and verbal communication. You can write a crisp one-pager for an executive audience and facilitate a working-level dependency review with engineers in the same week.
• Experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics.
• Familiarity with embedded systems and software development and the constraints that come with it.
• Hands-on experience with program tracking tools like Jira, Asana and Microsoft Project.