Staff Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Drive Strategic Initiatives: Own and execute large-scale, complex technical programs critical to Motional's roadmap, focusing on model development and release cycles, while ensuring alignment between senior engineering leaders, product managers, and executive stakeholders.
• Lead Cross-Stack Integration: Serve as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for high-level behavioral capabilities, managing dependencies and driving integration efforts across Prediction and ML Planning teams to successfully launch large models.
• Dive Deep Technically: Go beyond surface-level program tracking. Dive deep into ML and behavioral issues to facilitate trade-off discussions, and drive teams to convergence on robust solutions.
• Identify and Resolve Blockers: Proactively identify, quantify, and communicate technical risks and dependencies. You will be expected to develop and execute mitigation strategies for high-priority issues that could impact our driverless milestones.
• Influence Roadmaps: Partner deeply with engineering and product leadership to ensure the ML and behaviors roadmap is well-defined, integrated, and aligned with top-level company goals.

Requirements

• Experience & Domain Knowledge: 7+ years of experience in technical program management or a similar role, leading complex, safety-critical AI software, robotics, or systems programs. Experience managing large model releases and model development lifecycles is highly preferred.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Proven Delivery: A strong track record of taking large, complex programs from initial concept and ambiguity to a successful launch.
• Clear Communication Skills: Demonstrated ability to act as the primary point of contact for complex programs, with a track record of communicating progress, risks, and strategic recommendations to leadership.
• We encourage a hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of our locations in Boston or Pittsburgh to support collaboration, or this role can be fully remote
• Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional's benefits program. Motional's benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.
• Salary Range
• $144,000 - $191,250 USD
• Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We're driven by something more.
• Our journey is always people first.
• Higher purpose, greater impact.
• Scale up, not starting up.
• Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standi

Benefits

Additional Information

Mission Summary: Motional is seeking to hire a Staff-level Autonomy TPM. This role requires strong, experienced leadership to drive complex initiatives across the company. We are seeking a high-impact individual to own and drive key cross-functional initiatives on the path to a driverless robotaxi. This role will operate across our core machine learning capabilities-specifically partnering with the Behaviors, Prediction, and ML Planning teams-to help prioritize and track technical workstreams in support of our driverless goals. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, possesses technical expertise in robotics or autonomous systems, and has a strong background driving safety-critical ML software and model releases in a fast-paced environment.

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