Company

Automotive

SeniorTechnicalProgramManager-VehicleSystemIntegration

$186–223k Foster City, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Senior Technical Program Manager - Vehicle System Integration. Skills: Vehicle System Integration, Technical Program Management, Systems Engineering. Manage release train. Manage maturity lifecycle”

What You'll Achieve.

Track open action items to closure; Resolve disconnects before stalling progress; Ensure stakeholders evaluate impacts

Industry & Context.

Automotive
Problems you'll solve

Identify risks

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years Technical Program Manager or Systems Engineer experience, Aerospace, autonomous vehicle, or advanced automotive setting experience, Systems engineering V-model lifecycle familiarity, Fail-operational architectures familiarity, Requirements management frameworks familiarity, SFMEAs tracking and driving experience, DFMEAs tracking and driving experience, FTAs tracking and driving experience, ISO 26262 compliance experience, MIL-STD-882 compliance experience, Vehicle E/E system design background, Electrical integration background, Managing complex hardware/software interfaces background, Standard project management stacks expertise, Change management stacks expertise, Configuration management stacks expertise, Requirements management tools and processes expertise, Ability to command a room, Facilitate technical discussions, Facilitate non-technical discussions, Drive consensus without direct authority, B.S. or M.S. in Mechatronics, Electrical, Aerospace, or Systems Engineering

Nice to Have

Automotive Systems in Body or Motion Domains experience

What You'll Do.

Manage maturity lifecycle

Manage governance for STS

Ensure cross-functional inputs

Meet vehicle milestone deadlines

Schedule SFMEA workshops

Facilitate SFMEA workshops

Track SFMEA action items

Ensure safety mitigations integration

Build dependency matrix

Maintain dependency matrix

Identify timeline disconnects

Resolve timeline disconnects

Lead ECR program management

Evaluate timeline impacts

Evaluate resource impacts

Define health metrics

Report status to leadership

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional inputs; Multi-disciplinary workshops; Downstream stakeholders; Domain experts

Communication Scope

Status visibility

Process & Methodology

Program management, Change management, Configuration management

Full Job Description

## In this role, you will Orchestrate the Requirements Pipeline: Manage the release train, maturity lifecycle, and governance for all System Technical Specifications (STS) across all program gates from PI to OKTB. You don’t write the specs, but you ensure the Systems Engineers have the cross-functional inputs they need from all stakeholders in order to meet strict vehicle milestone deadlines. Drive SFMEA Execution & Accountability: Act as the operational owner of the System Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (SFMEA) lifecycle. Schedule and facilitate multi-disciplinary workshops, track open action items to strict closure dates, and ensure safety mitigations are integrated into downstream hardware/software schedules. Cross-Functional Dependency Mapping: Build and maintain the master dependency matrix linking Studio (styling/packaging), Product, SDMA (Safety), VSE, VI and Validation. Proactively identify and resolve timeline disconnects before they stall engineering progress. Change Control & Impact Governance: Lead the program management of Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) at the system level. Ensure that when a requirement changes, all affected downstream stakeholders (from firmware to validation teams) are brought to the table to evaluate timeline and resource impacts. Maturity Gate Tracking & Reporting: Define and track the health metrics of the Systems Engineering team’s deliverables (e.g., requirement stability, SFMEA action item burn-down, verification progress). Provide clear, high-density status visibility to executive leadership. ## Qualifications 8+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager or Systems Engineer in an aerospace, autonomous vehicle, or advanced automotive setting, with a proven track record of driving complex, cross-functional projects from requirements through validation. Deep, practical familiarity with the systems engineering "V-model" lifecycle, fail-operational architectures, and requirements management frameworks. Proven experi

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