Staff Technical Program Manager, AV Integrity Platform
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Technical Innovation Center in Mountain View, CA three times per week, at minimum.
The Role
We are seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to drive execution across core vehicle software and systems responsible for data pipeline control, signal processing, safety compliance, and autonomous vehicle (AV) health monitoring.
This role will partner closely with engineering teams across perception, infrastructure, platform, and hardware to deliver a robust, scalable, and compliant data and health ecosystem spanning from sensor ingestion through AI stack integration.
What You’ll Do
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Lead cross-functional planning and execution for systems covering:
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Data pipeline control & configuration, data ingestion, and signal processing from sensor to AI stack
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Diagnostics, power, and thermal management for onboard compute and sensor modules
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Safety and compliance systems ensuring adherence to functional safety
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AV health monitoring, system degradation, and fallback management
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Stack launch and data recording pipelines supporting on-road and bench validation
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Drive end-to-end program delivery, ensuring alignment between hardware, software, validation, and infrastructure teams
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Build and maintain integrated schedules, dependency tracking, and risk registers to ensure on-time execution and system maturity progression
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Collaborate with engineering leadership to define release milestones, success metrics, and readiness criteria
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Partner with AI and infrastructure teams to optimize data throughput, latency, and reliability in sensor-to-stack pathways
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Manage cross-team design and integration reviews, ensuring traceability across safety, diagnostics, and data compliance requirements
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Provide visibility to executives and stakeholders through status reporting, executive dashboards, and risk mitigation summaries
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Foster strong collaboration across AV team to ensure synchronized development and system validation
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Drive budget planning and quarterly plannings
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Monitor and manage risks, align dependencies, and drive corrective actions to meet program milestones.
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Build strong documentation practices across Jira, Confluence, and Smartsheets
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
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8+ years of experience in technical program management or systems engineering, in automotive, aerospace, robotics, or distributed systems
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Proven experience managing complex data, control, or safety-critical software systems across multi-disciplinary teams
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Strong understanding of embedded systems, diagnostics frameworks, and data processing pipelines
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Experience with functional safety processes, compliance tracking, and validation cycles
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Excellent communication, organization, and cross-functional alignment skills
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Ability to drive execution from early concept through launch and operational sustainment
What will give you a competitive edge (Preferred Qualifications)
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Prior experience supporting AV.
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Background working in automotive, aerospace, or other requirement-driven development environments.
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Knowledge of AV software development pipelines and Continuous Integration systems.
Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The compensation may not be representative for positions located outside of the California Bay Area.
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The salary range for this role is $143,000 to $258,800. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
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Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
