Engineering Software Program Manager - Customer Program

Luminar Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LAZR) is transforming automotive safety and autonomy by delivering the only lidar and associated software that meets the industry’s stringent performance, safety, and economic requirements. Luminar has rapidly gained over 50 industry partners, including a majority of the top global automotive OEMs. In 2020, Luminar signed the industry’s first production deal for autonomous consumer vehicles with Volvo Cars, which now expects to make Luminar’s technology part of the standard safety package on their next generation electric SUV. Additional customer wins include NVidia, Mercedes Benz, SAIC, Daimler Truck AG, Intel’s Mobileye, Pony.ai and Airbus UpNext. Founded in 2012, Luminar employs approximately 400 with offices in Palo Alto, Orlando, Colorado Springs, Detroit, and Munich

Our vision is to make autonomous transportation safe and ubiquitous. Far too many lives are lost in vehicle accidents each year. Come join the mission of a lifetime. Visit us @ https://www.luminartech.com/ to find out more.

 

Team Overview

Luminar Technologies is seeking a Software Engineering Program Manager to coordinate internal technical teams and manage cross-functional timelines so distributed teams are tightly aligned and follow scrum based agile software development processes to deliver autonomous vehicle functionality to major automotive OEM and Tier 1 companies around the world.

 

Responsibilities

• Engage with other EPMs and represent software in all technical aspects of development.
• Evaluate new opportunities and help establish engineering contacts, helping to launch new projects, seeking to generate new business value.
• Market and demonstrate our software products to internal stakeholders, supporting business development and product management efforts for opportunistic markets.
• Oversee all technical alignment within Luminar’s software development program including systems engineering and architecture, requirements management, safety plans and software integration architecture in compliance with ASPICE.
• Create and take ownership of technical project plans from early stages until series production.
• Estimate required resources and determine headcount for staffing plans.
• Coordinate feature roll out plans and software release plans between the customer and the internal software development.
• Track results of all required tests, analyze release blockers, and enable successful resolution.
• Continuously evaluate the efficiency of existing processes and procedures of change and release management to improve best practices.
• Ensure all features are delivered with the highest quality and meet all requirements.
• Identify any team/process gaps and collaborate with internal product and technology teams to define the necessary development to support solution delivery.
• Identify and manage project risks.
• Prepare and disseminate project status reports, including KPIs.
• Drive implementation activities and work cross-functionally with other software engineers.
• Expected to travel up to 10% of the time, for customer project development and execution.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• BS, MS in Computer Science & Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related field
• PMP, CSM certification preferred
• 5+ years of work experience in automotive industry
• 3+ years of technical project management experience including shipping products
• Knowledge of automotive and safety development standards (AutoSAR, ASPICE, ISO26262)
• Knowledge of waterfall and agile project management methodologies and tools
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to motivate others, drive collaboration, and quickly resolve conflicts
• Enjoy working within a dynamic and continuously evolving environment
• Able to work successfully in cross-functional teams, especially across organizational and geographical boundaries

 

Benefits 

• Location: in the beautiful city of Palo Alto, California.
• Timing: post IPO company at a critical stage of growth.
• Compensation: Competitive salaries and meaningful equity.
• Benefits: Comprehensive package (medical, dental, vision, and more).
• PTO: Take it when you need it, we are a results-oriented team (not just a 9-5 job).

 

Industry: Autonomous vehicles, automotive, project management

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Functions: Project Management

 

 

 

 

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