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Salary: USD 176,400 - 264,600 / annual
Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology. Founded in 2016 and backed by over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, SoftBank, Fidelity, and T. Rowe Price, Nuro is building a universal autonomy platform enabling self-driving vehicles across multiple use cases and markets.
You will lead Nuro's Technical Program Management team supporting the AI Platform organization. AI Platform owns the offboard and onboard systems that accelerate autonomy development and enable reliable deployment, spanning the data flywheel (data collection, mining, training, simulation, evaluation), onboard firmware and middleware, cloud services, and fleet operations tooling.
In this role, you will combine people leadership with direct ownership of critical programs. You'll develop and coach a team of TPMs, personally lead selected high-impact programs, and drive complex coordination across engineering, product, operations, and external partners.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and developing the TPM team: setting expectations for technical depth and ownership, coaching career development, hiring talent, and aligning assignments to highest-priority needs
- Driving critical programs directly: turning ambiguous goals into defined scope, milestones, accountable owners, and measurable outcomes
- Shaping priorities and execution plans in partnership with engineering and product leaders, surfacing resource constraints and resolving trade-offs
- Resolving technical and organizational blockers through design reviews, integration planning, and root-cause analysis
- Coordinating integration and deployment readiness across onboard software, offboard services, and partner systems
- Managing execution with external partners (vehicle manufacturers, technology suppliers, commercial partners) on deliverables, responsibilities, and schedules
- Improving organizational execution through practical planning processes, metrics-driven bottleneck identification, and automation of repetitive work
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, systems engineering, or related technical discipline, including substantial ownership of complex multi-team programs
- 2+ years of direct people-management experience with demonstrated success developing TPMs or engineers and addressing performance gaps
- Strong technical depth in at least one relevant area: distributed systems, embedded software, ML infrastructure, data platforms, or robotics, with ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly and reason across interfaces
- Track record of delivering ambiguous technical programs from initial definition through integration, release, and operational adoption
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills: distinguishing symptoms from root causes, testing assumptions, using evidence to guide prioritization
- Ability to influence teams without direct authority, resolve disagreements, and communicate technical issues and risks clearly to engineers, executives, and external partners
- Sound judgment about when to investigate personally, when to delegate, and how much process a program needs
- Degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
