Zoox
Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager - Core Autonomy Capabilities
$213K–$295K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; stated fields are engineering, program management, or management consulting.
- Education
- BS or MS degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own and coordinate a portfolio of cross-functional programs delivering new core autonomy and safety capabilities from architecture through release.
What you'll do
- Drive capability programs, define completion criteria, and coordinate TPMs across the portfolio.
- Surface dependencies and risks, lead executive milestone reviews, and drive decisions and trade-offs.
- Prioritize and staff the portfolio with engineering and product leaders, including presenting priced options.
What they ask for
- Engineering degree or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years in engineering, program management, or management consulting focused on product development, including leading complex cross-functional technical programs end to end.
- Experience in autonomy, robotics, or another complex safety-critical domain, with technical depth to follow architectural trade-offs and validation results.
- Proven ability to influence without authority across organizational boundaries.
Nice to have
- Experience taking a novel capability from research or prototype into production.
- Experience shipping machine-learned components into a production, safety-critical system.
Pay
USD 213,000–295,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary
Tools
Jira
AI focus
Programs include learned scene understanding and behavior models, the next generation of the perception and motion planning stack, and other autonomy capabilities. The role may involve machine-learned components in production, safety-critical systems.
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