Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager - Core Autonomy Capabilities

The role

You will own a portfolio of programs that launch new autonomy and safety capabilities for the robotaxi, including fail-operational architectures, perception and motion planning, and collision avoidance. You will drive these programs across several teams outside your reporting line and act as the main point of contact for milestone and executive leadership.

What you will do

• Own the outcome for each capability, from architecture through the release that ships it.
• Partner with the TPMs who own individual capabilities and set a consistent bar for planning and reporting.
• Make dependencies visible early so leadership makes trade-offs explicitly.
• Be the primary point of contact for milestone and executive leadership, and run reviews that produce decisions.
• Arbitrate scope during planning cycles and bring priced options instead of open questions.
• Execute on capabilities that have never shipped before, engaging in technical trade-offs.

Required qualifications

• BS or MS degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in engineering, program management, or management consulting with a focus on product development.
• Success leading complex cross-functional technical programs from start to finish.
• Experience in autonomy, robotics, or another complex safety-critical domain, with the technical depth to follow architectural trade-offs and validation results.
• Proven ability to influence without authority across organizational boundaries.
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity and enabling teams to perform in it.
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in program management tools such as Jira.

Nice to have

• Experience taking a novel capability from research or prototype into production.
• Experience shipping machine-learned components into a production, safety-critical system.
• Experience with verification and validation, release qualification, or safety case development.
• Experience developing from scratch and scaling engineering or operational processes.

Before you apply

• You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply.

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem to bring it to market. The company sits at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, aiming to provide mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.