Principal, Technical Product Manager - Mission Management

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet The Team:  

As a Principal Technical Product Manager, you will be on the Solutions Engineering team which plays a crucial role in driving end-to-end execution by managing a comprehensive engineering & development strategy. Solutions Engineering works closely with Product Management, TPMs and the development teams to ensure cohesive system architecture and solution design. The team owns the Engineering roadmap by balancing engineering trade-offs and designing solutions for complex engineering problems with deep cross functional dependencies. Team also provides visibility into each milestone, ensuring that the implementations progress toward the successful commercialization of a safe and valuable product. 

What You’ll Do:  

• Define a technical strategy, roadmap and develop proof of concept / prototype implementation (as needed) for the solution 
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and design scalable solutions for the technology organization, negotiate engineering trade-offs with multiple stakeholders and get executive approval and buy in on the solution
• Drive cross-organizational planning efforts and collaborate with product managers, business leaders, TPMs, engineering teams, and subject-matter-experts to prioritize and deliver on roadmap expectations 
• Be able to analyze, and mentor others to analyze, system performance issues and drive change to enhance speed, efficiency, and scalability. 
• Establish measurable objectives for engineering teams and build an Engineering Roadmap to deliver on solutions and meet product objectives
• Work with engineering leaders to drive standards of excellence into meaningful ways of working and best-practices of engineering.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams in the division by promoting best practices and ensuring adherence to organization standards and design principles.
• Participate in design and code reviews, providing constructive feedback to ensure high-quality solutions.
• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills – both written and verbal, with an inclination to document, provide status and track down action items.  
• Be able to drive multiple solution workstreams at any given time and make a prolific contribution to the engineering organization overall.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technologies and best practices for potential integration with existing solutions. 

What You’ll Need to Succeed:  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field. Master’s or Ph.D. degree preferred
• Prior domain knowledge in any of the following areas – AV remote assistance, hub or mission management, and any off-board workflows in AV domain
• Minimum 15 years of experience in safety critical engineering with preference for real world (beyond research) machine learning projects, classical robotics applications, automotive ADAS applications, and other embedded environments
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of prior software development experience in C, C++, Python to demonstrate logical thinking that goes beyond any single programming language
• Experience managing workstreams across multiple cross-functional teams, building processes, structure and coordinating release schedules
• Strong business communication skills, written and verbal, that can help articulate value and trade-offs with executive leadership 
• Exceptional technical communication skills, written and verbal, that scale to a diverse workforce at all experience levels
• Strong pr