Senior Technical Program Manager - ADAS/AD Systems Engineering

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.   We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.   Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

In this role, you are embedded within the ADAS department as a Sr. Technical Program Manager - ADAS/AD Software Development to collaborate with a wide range of cross-functional teams at Lucid Motors on tracking and bringing to completion of all phases of ADAS/AD SW development and release process.    

The Sr. Technical Program Manager - ADAS/AD Software Development will help guide the internal SW development ADAS teams in the development of ADAS and Autonomous Driving SW for Lucid vehicles.  

This role is located on-site at Headquarters in Newark, Ca.  

  Role and Responsibilities   

• Coordinate across platform, applications (Maps, Motion Planning & Control, Perception), and Data teams to create an integrated stack that aligns with feature development  

• Define and track progress toward SW integration milestones and identify, escalate, unblock issues that impact SW Development  

• Manage and coordinate critical program activities between the key stakeholders, cross-functional teams and other project managers/tech leads  

• Manage and coordinate SW release cadences both for ADAS internal validation, and overall system integration and validation milestones     

• Employ project management skills related to overall project tracking, deliverables management, action item tracking, meeting minutes, team communications, and presentations; keep stakeholders apprised of project status and defined deliverables.  

• Use tools like Jira and Confluence to communicate key tasks, track progress, and publish critical information to the complete project team.   

• Contribute to Strategy development and operation management for the entire ADAS/AD department  

Required Qualifications:  

• BS or MS degree in an engineering disciple or equivalent experience  

• 3+ years of experience in technical program management in ADAS SW development, or 7 years of experience in the automotive field, with ADAS/AD features and systems  

• Success in leading cross-functional teams in launching ADAS/AD features into production 

• An ability to lead through ambiguity and enabling teams to perform in this environment  

• Expertise using JIRA, Confluence, and other project management tools  

• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills and an ability to explain difficult or sensitive information in an easy to understand manner  

• Ability to quickly comprehend complex problems and effectively facilitate the team to a decision and coordinate the action plan.  

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills, with ability to work in a high-pace highly complex cross-functional environment.  

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with ability to drive decisions using data and metrics   

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Previous project management experience from an OEM or a Tier1 in ADAS/AD SW development, or feature definition and systems engineering  

• Previous experience with lean-agile framewor