Nvidia Senior Technical Program Manager - Autonomous Vehicles 

United States, California 

591048455

What you will be doing:

• Work with the engineering team to come up with and handle project roadmaps, schedules, achievements and work you're doing as part of the development team.

• Coordinate release content and efforts with multiple program/engineering managers who own individual components.

• Balance risks and address problem that affects release scope, schedule and quality

• Work closely with the leadership team to help define measures of release quality using industry standards

• Establish metrics to assist with assessing the health of the release

• Guide the team on driving in accurate agile/scrum manner

• Assist in improving processes and procedures within the team.

• Help streamline day-to-day operations.

• Generate KPIs and metrics to measure progress and track trends. Be able to analyze the trends and drive improvements through them.

• Regularly communicate the program status and key issues to management and across teams within the organization

What we need to see:

• BS/MS Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

• 8+ years recent Program/Project Management experience driving the planning and execution of software engineering projects, and releasing commercial products

• Experience handling at least few successful releases with the short release cadence in a multifaceted environment

• A consistent track record of leading and optimally delivering medium to large programs and projects, process improvements

• Shown ability to evaluate and drive adoption of new and improved process workflows in medium to large organizations

• Experience with new product introduction and program managing research teams is a plus

• Previous experience & lived a life as a software developer or software QA engineer. Understand the pressures they are under, allowing you to more successfully lead them in projects as well as process.

• Experience with Jira and/or JAMA, to the point that you can comfortable guide an engineering team how to use these tools and execute in an Agile/scrum manner

• PMP, Scrum Master certification is a plus

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, autonomy software integration and machine learning

• Experience with start-ups and/or early-stage products

• Background with automotive SW development and QNX

• Experience working with operations and fleet management

• Background with Issue triaging and diagnosis.