Principal Technical Program Manager, Software

The Motional Technical Program Management team is seeking to hire an experienced software TPM to help drive integrated software programs. This role requires strong collaboration and management across our systems, safety, autonomy, embedded software, hardware, and testing teams in order to achieve program-level activities and milestones. We are seeking an individual who has experience in driving alignment across the organization with a heavy focus on software teams and understanding what’s required to deliver a driverless robotaxi. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of autonomous driving technology!

What You'll Do

• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful software program execution and team velocity across groups of software teams and across departments. Be an effective proxy in program and organizational matters to help engineering leads scale.
• Ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood and that programs and staffing are aligned with the roadmap.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
• Proactively identify program risks and mitigations, working with teams to develop action plans and drive escalations to bring issues to closure
• Partner with engineering leaders to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones
• Track and communicate the progress of the team or group’s key programs. Define efficient processes for communicating group program status more broadly.
• Communicate to leadership in regular forums, contribute to executive deliverables, and provide your team’s analyses and recommendations in a clear and concise way that captures impact
• Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, and drive results proactively.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities.

What We're Looking For

• Demonstrated experience with integrating complex software (perception, planning, controls, safety critical software) onto embedded systems. 
• Demonstrated experience with managing various stakeholder inputs 
• Minimum of 5 years experience in the robotics, autonomy, or embedded software domain areas. Knowledge of general autonomous system software and hardware including perception, simulation methods, and hardware
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics or a related technical field. 
• Strong written and oral communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse global team
• Strong teamwork, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced work environment across multiple time zones with a can-do attitude. 
• Ability to come into a Motional office 2-3 days a week at a minimum 

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above - that’s okay! We encourage you to apply if you think this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day and that you can deliver the results we need.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process. 

Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program. Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.

Salary Range$150,400—$222,200 USD

Motional is a driverless technology company making self-driving vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality.

The Motional team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who together are creating a first-of-its-kind technology with the potential to transform the way we move. We’re behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's most-