The Motional Technical Program Management team is seeking to hire an experienced Infrastructure TPM to help drive integrated software programs. This role requires strong collaboration and management across our infrastructure, systems, autonomy, embedded software, hardware, operations and testing teams in order to achieve program-level activities and milestones. We are seeking an individual who has experience in driving alignment across the organization with a heavy focus on infrastructure teams and understanding what’s required to deliver a driverless robotaxi. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of autonomous driving technology!
What You'll Do
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- Extensive demonstrated experience with software developer platforms, CI/CD pipeline, cloud applications, virtual tools, testing and simulation, and software release process.
- Extensive demonstrated experience with managing various stakeholder inputs at multiple levels
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor junior team members
- Minimum of 5 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 Asia business hours to coordinate program tasks with team in Singapore
If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above - that’s okay! We encourage you to apply if you think this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day and that you can deliver the results we need.
Because travel is an essential function of the job, Motional currently requires those performing this role to be fully vaccinated. Anyone hired into this role should be vaccinated by their start date. Motional is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated where it is not an undue hardship to the Company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
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
$128,500—$174,000 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.
We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.
Higher purpose, greater impact.
We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.
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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-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.
Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
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What We Do
Our team is commercializing a world-class driverless system. The Motional team is behind some of the industry’s largest leaps forward in the last decade, 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 most-established public robotaxi fleet. Strategically formed by Hyundai Motor Group, one of the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers offering smart mobility solutions, and Aptiv, a global technology leader in advanced safety, electrification, and vehicle connectivity, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives.
Why Work With Us
Our leadership team has been working in this industry for decades and includes renown early innovators in driverless technology. We are creating a future where transportation is safe, reliable, and accessible. Join our team in revolutionizing the industry that will change how the world moves.
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