Technical Program Manager - Autonomy

You will be responsible for managing the roadmap and execution of Zipline’s Autonomy teams, leading the company to ship more impactful autonomy software, faster. This includes everything from the software that detects and avoids aircraft with acoustic sensors to the software that controls the delivery path. You’ll work closely with software engineers, team leads and other TPMs across the company. You’ll also work with flight test operations, our hardware programs, and regulatory teams as we push the bleeding edge forward. You’ll speed up development by ensuring all pieces of our complex system are coming together on time and achieving our quality bar.

What You'll Do  

• Manage the Autonomy software roadmap: balance, drive, and align key features while surfacing gaps and mitigating risks to projects and the overall program
• Measure and improve development velocity: own engineering timelines, unblock teams, cross-check plans, and streamline cross-functional dependencies
• Engage across the development lifecycle: from architecture reviews, to sprint planning, and all the way to system validation
• Engage across the breadth of the technical stack: from camera and acoustic perception systems, to data pipelines and path planning. 
• Translate and integrate broader company goals into specific autonomy system strategy 
• Bring the right people together to make critical decisions
• Communicate progress across Autonomy program to the executive team and broader company

What You'll Bring 

• An understanding of a modern software development life cycles
• Ability to quickly build useful understanding of many technical domains
• Experience managing and tracking complicated development programs across software and hardware 
• Experience coordinating projects across a medium- or large-sized engineering team shipping safety critical software
• Efficient at leading conversations to clear next-steps and decisions with many competing priorities
• Experience standing up and rolling out new development and  processes for engineering teams
• Familiarity with autonomous robotics systems, safety critical software, and flight systems, data and machine learning model lifecycles

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