Zoox
Senior Technical Program Manager - Verification and Validation
$202K–$236K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- At least 6 years of experience in engineering program management.
- Education
- BS/MS degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent job experience.
About the job
Drive cross-functional verification and validation programs for autonomous mobility, translating strategy into roadmaps and building scalable systems to evaluate autonomy behavior.
What you'll do
- Develop product roadmaps, timelines, milestones, and deliverables with Autonomy V&V engineering managers.
- Support teams building evaluation pipelines using statistics, simulation, and other methods; improve scalable autonomy evaluation systems.
- Coordinate stakeholders to identify gaps and risks, drive bug closure, track test coverage, and unblock teams.
What they ask for
- BS/MS degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent job experience.
- At least 6 years of experience in engineering program management.
- Strong track record managing complex cross-functional projects and problem-solving.
- Deep familiarity with software development processes and project-management tools or processes; excellent communication skills and ability to create visualizations of KPIs and program risks.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML, autonomous vehicles, computer vision, large language models, reinforcement learning, simulation, and/or automotive or aerospace processes.
- Experience working on complex safety-critical systems.
Pay
USD 202,000–236,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
Smartsheet, JIRA
AI focus
Support teams building evaluation pipelines and scalable systems for evaluating autonomous-vehicle behavior; AI/ML experience is desired.
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