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# Technical Program Manager

- **Company:** Zoox
- **Location:** Foster City, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $193,000.0 - $231,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Systems Engineering, Computer Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Regression Testing
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/83967e5c-bfb4-4b3d-974a-fd0fefe4a168/apply

## About the Role

* BS or MS in an engineering discipline, or equivalent experience
 * 10+ years in technical program management, systems engineering, or engineering management in automotive, with direct ownership of electrical distribution systems or vehicle electrical architecture scope
 * Experience managing external engineering partners, engineering service providers, or Tier 1 development partners across time zones - including negotiating scope boundaries and holding a partner to committed deliverables; approximately quarterly international travel and recurring early-morning Pacific calls
 * Working fluency in engineering change management and PLM workflows: change requests, change actions, EBOM release, and drawing release control
 * Comfort operating without a settled org chart or a fully defined scope, the judgment to force decisions rather than wait for them, and the ability to communicate schedule and risk clearly to both engineers and executives
 * Proven track record in low voltage harness design and release, gained within an OEM or major automotive manufacturing environment
 * Proficiency with risk analysis tools (FTA, FMEA) and root-cause methodologies (8D, Fishbone analysis, etc.), * Knowledge of wire harness design and validation standards (USCAR, IPC/WHMA-A-620) and vehicle EMC standards (CISPR 25)

## Description

* Serve as the central EE coordination function for your program - the single Zoox point of contact for all electrical scope and the counterpart to the partner's E/E lead - and own the EE portion of the engineering RASIC from concept through industrialization
 * Drive low-voltage harness and EDS impact assessment and change management, running gap analysis of partner-proposed designs against Zoox EDS design best practices and lessons learned, and converting findings into tracked change requests
 * Manage cross-company engineering data exchange and release control, including CAD toolchain and version incompatibility between Zoox and its partners; ensure Zoox retains configuration and release control of LV harness drawings, and work with Sourcing and Supplier Quality on build-to-print readiness
 * Coordinate the full set of EE work packages - antenna integration, vehicle-level EMC verification, E/E integration and regression testing, thermal validation, and electrical mounting hardware - pulling in the responsible Zoox module owners and holding them to dates
 * Build and hold the EE milestone plan against program gates and material required dates, surfacing risk early with a recovery option rather than a red status; publish a concise weekly program update and prepare EE content for executive and gate reviews, * Hands-on familiarity with CATIA (V5 and V6) and data exchange between mismatched OEM and supplier CAD toolchains


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