Senior Technical Program Manager - Vehicle Platform & Autonomy Integration

The role

You will lead the integration of perception, planning, controls, simulation, and vehicle platform teams into one release. You will own the program from architecture and integration milestones through on-road validation and deployment readiness.

What you will do

• Own the integration roadmap for the Vehicle autonomy platform across perception, motion planning, controls, simulation, and vehicle software teams.
• Drive cross-team milestone planning, dependency mapping, and risk tracking.
• Define integration test plans, validation gates, and readiness criteria for on-road deployment with autonomy and safety teams.
• Run program syncs, milestone reviews, and executive readouts.
• Anticipate integration risks and drive mitigation plans with engineering owners.
• Support release planning with safety, release management, and field operations teams.
• Continuously improve integration processes as the platform and organization scale.
• Establish and evolve program management processes for a fast-moving hardware-software program.

Required qualifications

• BS or MS degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent job experience
• 8+ years of technical program management experience, ideally on complex software integration programs
• Solid technical grounding in software systems and architecture discussions across autonomy subsystems
• Experience managing multi-team integration programs with heavy interdependencies
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Sharp written and verbal communication and a structured approach to risk and schedule management

Nice to have

• Experience in autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, or safety-critical software systems

About the company

Zoox is developing a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities. The company is building its autonomy stack and vehicle platform toward on-road deployment.