Principal Technical Program Manager – SW Infrastructure

Principal Technical Program Manager – SW Infrastructure

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience with managing projects involving Machine Learning, Data Ingestion, Data Mining, Model Training, and GT Regression
• Experience with ML data processing for large-scale deep learning training
• Experience working with large datasets and big data technologies
• Familiarity with the maintenance of scalable ML data processing, model training solutions in the AWS cloud infrastructure
• Extensive demonstrated experience with managing various stakeholder inputs at multiple levels
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor junior team members
• Minimum of 7 years experience in the robotics, autonomy, or embedded software domain areas. Knowledge of general autonomous system software and hardware including perception, simulation methods, and hardware
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics or a related technical field
• Strong written and oral communication skills, especially the ability to communicate complex engineering issues to a diverse global team
• Strong teamwork, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced work environment across multiple time zones with a can-do attitude
• Ability to support conference calls in across multiple timezones (EST, PST, Singapore) to coordinate program tasks with distributed teams

Responsibilities

• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful infrastructure program execution and team velocity across groups of cross-functional teams and across departments. Be an effective proxy in program and organizational matters to help engineering leads scale.
• Ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood and that programs and staffing are aligned with the roadmap.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
• Proactively identify program risks and mitigations, working with teams to develop action plans and drive escalations to bring issues to closure
• Partner with engineering leaders to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities to achieve company milestones
• Perform value stream mapping to develop and implement processes which will improve organizational effectiveness.
• Track and communicate the progress of the team or group’s key programs. Define efficient processes for communicating group program status more broadly.
• Communicate to leadership in regular forums, contribute to executive deliverables, and provide your team’s analyses and recommendations in a clear and concise way that captures impact
• Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress, identify gaps in communication or schedule, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities, and drive results proactively.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.