Staff Technical Program Manager, AI
General Motors
Staff Technical Program Manager, Hardware Infrastructure
General Motors
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Warren • California, Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $165,000 - $298,800 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Drive the end-to-end hardware infrastructure roadmap for lab and field test platforms; align milestones across stakeholders to meet vehicle program gates and readiness targets.
- Own program planning, dependency mapping, critical-path analysis, and risk management for lab/bench infrastructure; maintain a visible RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) with clear owners, due dates, and mitigation plans.
- Partner with cross-functional leads to define scope, objectives , milestones, deliverables, and measurable success metrics for ongoing and future hardware infrastructure initiatives.
- Run program execution reviews with transparent progress reporting to leadership and stakeholders; surface status, risks, decisions, and financials with crisp narratives and data.
- Coordinate site readiness and lab enablement: safety practices, facilities work orders, power/cooling, racking, network, access control, and inventory/asset management.
- Lead vendor selection and performance management; negotiate schedules, SLAs, and deliverables; ensure incoming quality, qualification, and documentation requirements are met.
- Define traceable requirements for test benches and fixtures; translate engineering needs into scalable, serviceable, and compliant solutions with clear acceptance criteria.
- Implement observability and reporting: build dashboards for readiness, capacity, throughput, reliability, and incident metrics; drive continuous improvement through postmortems and root-cause analysis.
- Champion best practices for change control, configuration management, versioning, and test repeatability across labs and field deployments.
Requirements
- 8+ years in hardware or software engineering organizations, with substantial exposure to validation/test environments and infrastructure at scale.
- Several years as a Technical Program Manager or comparable role delivering complex, cross-functional programs end-to-end in highly technical domains.
- Proven experience orchestrating structured planning cycles (quarterly, H1/H2) and operating reviews in large engineering organizations.
- Strong understanding of HIL systems, data acquisition, instrumentation, calibration workflows, test automation, and lab operations.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct critical-path analysis, tradeoff discussions, and executive-ready program communications.
- Exceptional organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills; comfortable with ambiguity and fast-changing priorities.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority and build trust across diverse teams.
- Fluency with modern development and validation toolchains (e.g., CI/CD for test automation, issue tracking, requirements and change management, telemetry/observability tooling).
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
hardware infrastructureprogram planningdependency mappingcritical-path analysisrisk managementtest automationHIL systemsdata acquisitioncalibration workflowslab operations
Soft skills
organizational skillsanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillsinterpersonal skillscommunication skillsinfluence without authoritytrust buildingadaptabilityambiguity managementcross-functional collaboration
