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About the Role:

• The Embedded Systems team is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Custom Silicon Software Technical Program Manager to join our dynamic team
• In this role, the Custom Silicon Software Technical Program Manager will play a critical role in overseeing and managing the software development aspects of our key custom silicon projects
• The ideal candidate is someone with a strong technical background, exceptional program management skills, and the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful execution of custom silicon software programs

What you’ll be doing:

Planning

• Drives the formulation and review of department roadmaps and objectives on a quarterly and monthly cadence
• Effectively collaborate with hardware, program management office, and suppliers to define project goals, milestones, and deliverables
• Partner with System Engineers to turn requirements and technical specs into achievable implementation roadmaps, including planning timelines and landmarks and identifying cross-team dependencies
• Work with Engineering Managers to ensure teams tackle a balanced assignment of critical initiatives, iterative improvements, and proactive engineering quality investments
• Support calculation of team capacity vs estimated workload, and ensure the team can deliver on their commitments

Execution

• Ensure successful execution of custom silicon software programs by monitoring progress, identifying risks, and implementing mitigation strategies
• Continuously improve execution by upleveling our reporting, milestones definition and overall program management practice in this area
• Promote effective communication within the Technical Program Management group to efficiently execute, filter, summarize reporting across the department to resolve, bring up issues and celebrate wins
• Establish confidence from partner teams to continuously minimize distractions or conflicts and push groups to improve their output
• Identify potential risks and issues related to custom silicon software development and develop mitigation plans to address them

Technical

• Use technical judgment in working with large, cross functional engineering teams
• Work with Technical Leads on design decisions, and chip in to the department design reviews to ensure we continue to raise our technical standards

What you must have:

• 5+ years of technical experience (2+ years of Embedded Systems and/or silicon development programs)
• Supervise record of driving execution across engineering org and job functions (Hardware, Systems, Test, Software)
• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mechatronic or similar technical field (former engineer) 
• Experience leading complex fast-paced safety critical initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations, often with conflicting priorities and schedules
• Proven experience in software program management, preferably in custom silicon or semiconductor industries
• Self motivation and passion to manage your teams, encourage standard methodologies, and constantly improve
• Passionate about self-driving car technology and its impact on the world

Bonus Points!

• Proven experience in software program management, preferably in custom silicon or semiconductor industries is highly valued 
• Experience running the software development for a new silicon program (device drivers, firmware, management of IP blocks, etc.) 
• Exposure to integration testing and performance optimization for silicon 
• Experience with safety critical