Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager - Automation & Scaling

The role

You will lead automation and scaling work for the validation and release process of autonomous vehicles. You will make simulation the main way to validate software and cut cycle time with AI-assisted triage and cloud infrastructure on AWS.

What you will do

• Partner with Simulation, Autonomy, and Mission Assurance teams to make simulation the primary validation engine
• Find manual, repetitive steps in development, validation, and release and lead the design of automation that removes them
• Deploy AI-assisted systems that parse logs, classify failures, and route issues
• Scale cloud-based (AWS) simulation, metrics, data processing, and release evaluation pipelines
• Turn prototypes from Zoox's technical experts and research teams into production systems
• Instrument the process end to end, find bottlenecks, and report progress against cycle-time goals to executive leadership

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, technical program management, or a combination, with a strong software background
• A track record of designing and deploying automation that measurably reduced cycle time, such as CI/CD, test, data, or triage pipelines
• Hands-on familiarity with AWS and large-scale distributed compute and data systems, including simulation workloads
• Experience building or applying AI/ML-based tools to analyze logs, detect failures, or automate engineering workflows
• Proven ability to take research or prototype work into production and influence technical experts without formal authority
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including turning technical bottlenecks into clear decisions for leadership

Nice to have

• Deep experience leveraging simulation platforms, virtual validation strategies, or synthetic data in autonomous vehicles or robotics
• Experience moving a large engineering organization from infrequent releases to a release train or continuous delivery model
• Experience with release qualification, verification and validation, or safety-critical software
• Hands-on coding experience in Python or similar, building internal tools and automation

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. It aims to provide next-generation mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.