Drimva

Aurora

Staff Technical Program Manager, Release Management

$163K–$290K

Mountain View, CA +2 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026

Location
Mountain View, CA
San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Experience
7+ years.

About the job

Owns software release operations and automation, coordinating release trains, safety gates, branching, and deployments as Aurora scales its driverless fleet.

What you'll do

  • Execute release cycles, schedules, daily build triage, and hotfix deployments across software and vehicle platforms.
  • Coordinate release readiness and communications across engineering, safety, hardware, and test operations teams.
  • Automate release workflows and build data-driven release gates that support auditable safety and compliance requirements.

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 with safety-regulated standards such as ISO 26262, DO-178C, or ISO 13485, and with configuration management, baselines, and change control.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD build automation and monorepo build systems, including daily release operations and troubleshooting.
  • Experience orchestrating concurrent release branches, daily build/release triage, and hotfix deployments. Travel to specified engineering and operations locations as business needs arise.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, machine learning systems, or complex cyber-physical environments.
  • Experience applying AI/ML tools to release operations; familiarity with AWS and progressive deployment methods.

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

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

AI focus

Use AI/ML tools for triage classification and anomaly detection; preferred experience includes automated test-failure classification, triage automation, and pipeline anomaly detection.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)