Zoox
Technical Program Manager - System Behavior Analysis
Foster City, CA · Mid
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About the role
- The System Behavior Analysis team is the front line for triage of driving events and software issues from our vehicle fleet and large-scale simulation, turning that data into engineering signal.
- Triage sits in the middle of a larger loop, from the fleet and simulation through engineering fixes to validation and release.
- Run the triage reviews that get defects, high-severity live-service issues and safety-critical events accurately classified and routed to the downstream teams that act on them. - Measure and improve triage health.
Responsibilities
- Drive triage accuracy and routing. Run the triage reviews that get defects, high-severity live-service issues and safety-critical events accurately classified and routed to the downstream teams that act on them.
- Zoox is building a full-stack autonomous mobility solution from the ground up.
- You will partner with software development, software integration, QA, safety, product, vehicle operations and the Program Management Office.
Requirements
- Bachelor's in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Stakeholder leadership and communication: proven ability to align teams without direct authority and give leadership clear, concise updates.
- Structure from ambiguity: a track record of breaking a complex or ambiguous problem or goal into workstreams, milestones and owners.
- Systems-Oriented Background:
- 3+ years in technical program management or engineering operations, with a systems mindset: you see a program and its hardware-software systems as connected parts, and trace how a change ripples upstream and downstream.
- experience writing your own queries and dashboards on high-volume issue or operational data, and a track record of using metrics to change how work runs.
- Tool-builder disposition:
- experience building light tooling to run your own program, and partnering with engineering to automate manual work.
- Stakeholder leadership and communication:
- proven ability to align teams without direct authority and give leadership clear, concise updates.
- Structure from ambiguity:
- a track record of breaking a complex or ambiguous problem or goal into workstreams, milestones and owners.
Nice to have
- Autonomous vehicle, robotics or other safety-critical experience, ideally with simulation, log replay or regression testing.
- Experience program-managing internal tools or automation through to adoption.
- Python or SQL, plus Jira and Confluence.
Compensation
- $171k-$219k
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