Staff Technical Program Manager, Hardware Infrastructure
General Motors
Staff Technical Program Manager, AI
General Motors
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Mountain View • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $143,000 - $258,800 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Drive the end-to-end strategy, planning, and execution of the AI Acceleration & Training program, aligning system architecture with software development roadmaps.
- Partner with AI training teams to scale distributed training platforms, enabling performance optimization, efficient data loading, experiment tracking, and metrics visualization.
- Lead the delivery of core libraries, frameworks, and infrastructure that accelerate perception, planning, and operations software development for autonomous driving.
- Collaborate with engineering, research, and product teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and deliver solutions supporting AI development velocity.
- Translate complex technical dependencies into clear, actionable program plans with measurable outcomes across multiple teams.
- Identify technical and program risks early, lead mitigation strategies, and ensure smooth change management processes.
- Ensure systems and pipelines are designed for long-term scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for training efficiency, model quality, and delivery velocity; provide regular updates to senior leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of technical program management experience, including 5+ years working on data, AI/ML, robotics, or autonomous systems.
- 3+ years of direct experience in Level 4 Autonomy.
- Hardware and SW backgrounds as program manager and engineering.
- BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Proven track record of managing complex cross-functional programs involving hardware, embedded software, and data pipelines.
- Strong systems thinking with ability to connect high-level architecture to on-the-ground execution details.
- Exceptional communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Deep familiarity with Agile program delivery, Jira, Confluence, and technical development workflows.
- Familiarity with SmartSheets, fleet ops tooling, and large-scale vehicle deployment workflows.
Benefits
- GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs.
- Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
- Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AI AccelerationTraining program managementData pipelinesAutonomous systemsLevel 4 AutonomyPerformance optimizationExperiment trackingMetrics visualizationSystems architectureTechnical program management
Soft skills
CommunicationCollaborationStakeholder managementSystems thinkingRisk managementChange managementPrioritizationLeadershipProblem-solvingExecution detail orientation
Certifications
BS in EngineeringMS in Computer Science
