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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