Senior Technical Program Manager - Vehicle Platform & Autonomy Integration

Zoox is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager - Vehicle Platform & Autonomy Integration in Foster City, United States. It pays $186k-$255k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Zoox.

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Zoox has embarked on a highly ambitious journey to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for our cities. We’re looking for a technical program manager to lead the integration effort that brings together perception, planning, controls, simulation, and vehicle platform teams into a single coherent release. You'll be the connective tissue across the autonomy stack, driving the program from architecture and integration milestones through on-road validation and readiness for deployment. You'll own program strategy, execution, and risk management across hardware, embedded software, and systems integration teams, working closely with hardware engineering, PMO, perception, and platform software groups to ship on schedule.

In this role, you will:

Own the integration roadmap for the Vehicle autonomy platform, coordinating across perception, motion planning, controls, simulation, and vehicle software teams.
Drive cross-team milestone planning, dependency mapping, and risk tracking for a program with many interlocking software subsystems.
Partner with autonomy engineering and safety teams to define integration test plans, validation gates, and readiness criteria for on-road deployment.
Run regular program syncs, milestone reviews, and executive readouts; translate technical status into clear risk/impact narratives for leadership.
Anticipate integration risks (interface mismatches, regression risk, simulation-to-real-world gaps) and drive mitigation plans with engineering owners.
Support release planning and coordination with safety, release management, and field operations teams as needed for Vehicle platform deployment.
Continuously improve integration processes as the platform and org scale.
Establish and evolve program management processes (planning cadences, milestone reviews, launch readiness criteria) for a fast-moving hardware-software program.

Qualifications

BS or MS degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent job experience
8+ years of technical program management experience, ideally on complex software integration programs (autonomy, robotics, safety-critical systems, or large-scale distributed software).
Solid technical grounding in software systems — comfortable with architecture discussions across perception, planning/controls, or similar autonomy subsystems.
Experience managing multi-team integration programs with heavy interdependencies and evolving requirements.
Strong stakeholder management skills; able to align engineering, safety, and leadership around a shared plan.
Sharp written/verbal communication and a structured approach to risk and schedule management.

Bonus Qualifications

Experience in autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, or safety-critical software systems strongly preferred.

How we rate this

Senior Technical Program Manager - Vehicle Platform & Autonomy Integration at Zoox rates 21 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Senior Technical Program Manager - Vehicle Platform & Autonomy Integration is an open job at Zoox.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $186k-$255k a year.
The role is based in Foster City, CA.
The job was posted on August 5, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
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