Staff Technical Program Manager, Release Management

What you'll do

• Execute release trains, daily build/release triage, branch cut-offs, and hotfix deployments across software and vehicle platforms.
• Coordinate release readiness and communication across engineering, safety, hardware, and test operations teams.
• Automate release workflows and develop auditable, data-driven release gates that support safety and compliance.

What they ask for

• 7+ years of hands-on release experience in technical program management, release engineering, or systems engineering, including software-hardware integrations.
• Experience in a safety-regulated domain, with configuration management, baseline, and change-control practices.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD build automation and monorepo build systems, such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, and Bazel.
• Experience managing concurrent release branches and daily triage; cross-functional collaboration, occasional evening or weekend coverage, and ability to travel as business needs arise.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, machine learning systems, or complex cyber-physical environments.
• Practical experience applying ML/AI tooling to release operations, such as test-failure classification or pipeline anomaly detection.

Pay

$181,000 - $290,000 per year (base salary; San Francisco, CA and Mountain View, CA); $163,000 - $261,000 per year (base salary; Pittsburgh, PA)

Tools

ISO 26262, DO-178C, ISO 13485, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Bazel, AWS

AI focus

Use AI/ML tools for triage classification and anomaly detection, including automated test-failure classification and pipeline anomaly detection.