Applied

Customer Technical Program Manager, Vehicle OS

Sunnyvale. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will own customer-facing program management, milestones, cross-functional coordination, and reporting for a flagship software program. You will work directly with a major global automotive OEM and across the engineering organization.

What you will do

  • Own the customer-facing program and maintain the program baseline including milestones, scope, risk register, and dependency map.
  • Drive delivery coordination across the engineering organization.
  • Serve as the primary interface to the customer's program leadership and counterpart TPMs.
  • Own and operate the full program governance cadence.
  • Define, own, and report program-side KPIs.
  • Own resolution of program-level issues and decisions through structured escalation management.
  • Partner with onsite teams to ensure seamless integration of products into the customer's vehicle program.
  • Own coordination and governance of all customer-facing field activities.

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years in technical program management within the automotive industry.
  • Strong customer-facing presence at director level.
  • Ability to coordinate delivery across multiple engineering teams.
  • Technical depth to assess feasibility, interpret requirements, and engage engineers across software vehicle and integration domains.
  • Bachelor's degree in STEM or a related field.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience in a startup or high-growth environment
  • Familiarity with automotive development standards (ASPICE, ISO 26262, AUTOSAR)
  • Experience with defect management at scale and severity-based SLA tracking
  • Background in series production programs or Vehicle OS / IVI / ADAS platform delivery
  • Experience managing the requirements lifecycle (decomposition, traceability, change control) on a customer-facing program

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.