Senior Manager, Technical Product and Program Management, Planning and Controls - Autonomous Vehicles
The Autonomous Vehicles (AV) team is searching for a highly motivated, highly technical Product and Program Management leader to lead and grow a rockstar team and build awesome technology. Our mission is to build and scale self-driving technology at light speed – from L2 driving to L4 robotaxis. We work with multiple OEM partners globally, and our software will be used by millions of customers worldwide. If this sounds like an exciting challenge, read on!
This role is responsible for all aspects of NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle planning and controls software (e.g., technology like Alpamayo, classical safety monitors, L2 planners, parking planners, and more). This is a mixed role requiring deep understanding of the technical aspects of AV planning and controls technology and how they relate to overall driving experience. This role will be responsible for prioritizing the "right problems" for teams to work on. You will work with leading experts to design and effectively deliver industry leading solutions for these problems. Ultimately you will need to develop a high performing team which can define and deliver against the highly ambitious technology product roadmaps we are delivering on to make the future of self driving vehicles a reality.
What you'll be doing:
Hands on leadership of a team coordinating projects, partnering with tech leads to understand and solve sophisticated planning and controls challenges, including AI based planners.
Drive and be responsible for delivery of your technology portfolios, in partnership with your engineering leader counterparts.
Coordinate and collaborate with teams and internal customers to deliver those roadmaps against extremely ambitious timelines and goals: build processes and frameworks to amplify team performance, communicate and resolve bottlenecks, address issues, and measure outcomes.
Clearly represent the group and technical product status and program execution to senior executives and OEM partners.
What we need to see:
Driven, hands on, leader and people manager with strong skills in communication, influencing, and multi-functional team building across time zones
Strong technical skills in robotics motion planning or controls, including experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or related projects which involve heavily matrixed sophisticated systems
Experience managing and growing technical product or program management teams across autonomous vehicle or robotics domains.
Creative problem solver who can handle ambiguous situations, reach consensus, and make decisions
Execution focus, with experience bringing new and innovative products and technologies into reality
12+ overall years of recent Product or Program Management experience and 5+ years of people management experience
BS/MS Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Proven track record of growing both technical product or technical program management teams in the autonomous vehicles or robotics space.
Relevant domain knowledge/experience and a proven technical background
Experience in a fast-paced AI company or Autonomous Vehicle company
Showing you always strive to learn new things, are motivated to solve hard problems, and that you care about the end product
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.Skills Required
- 12+ years of recent Product or Program Management experience
- 5+ years of people management experience
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Strong technical skills in robotics motion planning or controls
- Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or related projects
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are depicted as strong, featuring a meaningful 401(k) match with Roth options and support for Mega Backdoor Roth contributions. These elements position long-term savings as a notable advantage of the total rewards package.
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NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”
