Senior Manager, Technical Product and Program Management, Planning and Controls - Autonomous Vehicles

at NVIDIA · Industrial · Santa Clara, CA +2 · Remote

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Manager for their Autonomous Vehicles team to lead and grow a team responsible for planning and controls software, from L2 to L4 driving. The role involves hands-on leadership, driving delivery of technology portfolios, and collaborating with internal and external partners to achieve ambitious roadmaps. Requires strong technical skills in robotics motion planning/controls and experience managing technical teams in the AV/robotics domain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Hands on leadership of a team coordinating projects, partnering with tech leads to understand and solve sophisticated planning and controls challenges, including AI based planners.
  2. Drive and be responsible for delivery of your technology portfolios, in partnership with your engineering leader counterparts.
  3. Coordinate and collaborate with teams and internal customers to deliver those roadmaps against extremely ambitious timelines and goals: build processes and frameworks to amplify team performance, communicate and resolve bottlenecks, address issues, and measure outcomes.
  4. Clearly represent the group and technical product status and program execution to senior executives and OEM partners.

Skills

Required

  • people management
  • communication
  • influencing
  • multi-functional team building
  • robotics motion planning
  • controls
  • autonomous vehicles
  • robotics
  • managing and growing technical product or program management teams
  • problem solving
  • decision making
  • execution focus
  • Product or Program Management experience
  • BS/MS Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Nice to have

  • AI based planners
  • autonomous vehicle or robotics domains
  • fast-paced AI company
  • Autonomous Vehicle company

What the JD emphasized

  • highly technical
  • lead and grow a rockstar team
  • build awesome technology
  • build and scale self-driving technology
  • L2 driving to L4 robotaxis
  • millions of customers worldwide
  • exciting challenge
  • highly motivated
  • highly technical
  • lead and grow a rockstar team
  • build awesome technology
  • build and scale self-driving technology
  • L2 driving to L4 robotaxis
  • millions of customers worldwide
  • exciting challenge
  • AI based planners
  • extremely ambitious timelines and goals
  • amplify team performance
  • measure outcomes
  • senior executives
  • OEM partners
  • Driven, hands on, leader and people manager
  • strong skills in communication, influencing, and multi-functional team building
  • Strong technical skills in robotics motion planning or controls
  • autonomous vehicles, robotics, or related projects
  • heavily matrixed sophisticated systems
  • managing and growing technical product or program management teams
  • autonomous vehicle or robotics domains
  • Creative problem solver
  • handle ambiguous situations
  • reach consensus
  • make decisions
  • Execution focus
  • bringing new and innovative products and technologies into reality
  • 12+ overall years of recent Product or Program Management experience
  • 5+ years of people management experience
  • BS/MS Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Proven track record of growing both technical product or technical program management teams
  • autonomous vehicles or robotics space
  • Relevant domain knowledge/experience
  • proven technical background
  • fast-paced AI company
  • Autonomous Vehicle company
  • Showing you always strive to learn new things
  • motivated to solve hard problems
  • care about the end product

Other signals

  • autonomous vehicles
  • planning and controls software
  • AI based planners
  • robotics motion planning
  • driving experience
Read full job description

The Autonomous Vehicles (AV) team is searching for a highly motivated, highly technical Product and Program Management leader to lead and grow a rockstar team and build awesome technology. Our mission is to build and scale self-driving technology at light speed – from L2 driving to L4 robotaxis. We work with multiple OEM partners globally, and our software will be used by millions of customers worldwide. If this sounds like an exciting challenge, read on!

This role is responsible for all aspects of NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle planning and controls software (e.g., technology like Alpamayo, classical safety monitors, L2 planners, parking planners, and more). This is a mixed role requiring deep understanding of the technical aspects of AV planning and controls technology and how they relate to overall driving experience. This role will be responsible for prioritizing the "right problems" for teams to work on. You will work with leading experts to design and effectively deliver industry leading solutions for these problems. Ultimately you will need to develop a high performing team which can define and deliver against the highly ambitious technology product roadmaps we are delivering on to make the future of self driving vehicles a reality.

What you'll be doing:

  • Hands on leadership of a team coordinating projects, partnering with tech leads to understand and solve sophisticated planning and controls challenges, including AI based planners.
  • Drive and be responsible for delivery of your technology portfolios, in partnership with your engineering leader counterparts.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with teams and internal customers to deliver those roadmaps against extremely ambitious timelines and goals: build processes and frameworks to amplify team performance, communicate and resolve bottlenecks, address issues, and measure outcomes.
  • Clearly represent the group and technical product status and program execution to senior executives and OEM partners.

What we need to see:

  • Driven, hands on, leader and people manager with strong skills in communication, influencing, and multi-functional team building across time zones
  • Strong technical skills in robotics motion planning or controls, including experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or related projects which involve heavily matrixed sophisticated systems
  • Experience managing and growing technical product or program management teams across autonomous vehicle or robotics domains.
  • Creative problem solver who can handle ambiguous situations, reach consensus, and make decisions
  • Execution focus, with experience bringing new and innovative products and technologies into reality
  • 12+ overall years of recent Product or Program Management experience and 5+ years of people management experience
  • BS/MS Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Proven track record of growing both technical product or technical program management teams in the autonomous vehicles or robotics space.
  • Relevant domain knowledge/experience and a proven technical background
  • Experience in a fast-paced AI company or Autonomous Vehicle company
  • Showing you always strive to learn new things, are motivated to solve hard problems, and that you care about the end product

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 240,000 USD - 379,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 12, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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