Technical Program Manager, EE Systems

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Serve as the central EE coordination function for your program — the single Zoox point of contact for all electrical scope and the counterpart to the partner's E/E lead — and own the EE portion of the engineering RASIC…
• Drive low-voltage harness and EDS impact assessment and change management, running gap analysis of partner-proposed designs against Zoox EDS design best practices and lessons learned, and converting findings into…
• Manage cross-company engineering data exchange and release control, including CAD toolchain and version incompatibility between Zoox and its partners;
• Coordinate the full set of EE work packages — antenna integration, vehicle-level EMC verification, E/E integration and regression testing, thermal validation, and electrical mounting hardware — pulling in the…
• Build and hold the EE milestone plan against program gates and material required dates, surfacing risk early with a recovery option rather than a red status;

Job requirements

• BS or MS in an engineering discipline, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years in technical program management, systems engineering, or engineering management in automotive, with direct ownership of electrical distribution systems or vehicle electrical architecture scope
• Experience managing external engineering partners, engineering service providers, or Tier 1 development partners across time zones — including negotiating scope boundaries and holding a partner to committed…
• Working fluency in engineering change management and PLM workflows: change requests, change actions, EBOM release, and drawing release control
• Comfort operating without a settled org chart or a fully defined scope, the judgment to force decisions rather than wait for them, and the ability to communicate schedule and risk clearly to both engineers and executives
• Proven track record in low voltage harness design and release, gained within an OEM or major automotive manufacturing environment
• Proficiency with risk analysis tools (FTA, FMEA) and root-cause methodologies (8D, Fishbone analysis, etc.)
• Hands-on familiarity with CATIA (V5 and V6) and data exchange between mismatched OEM and supplier CAD toolchains