Director, Carline Program Management - Autonomous Vehicles - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$272,000 - $425,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 July 2026 by the employer.
Lead the NVIDIA DRIVE AV carline program management team focused on L4 Robotaxi productization.
About the role
This role leads carline program management within the NVIDIA DRIVE AV team to deliver autonomous vehicle products. The focus centers on L4 Robotaxi productization spanning software, hardware, and vehicle systems.
What you'll do
- Lead the full lifecycle of an autonomous driving carline program specialized in L4 Robotaxi productization, from feature definition and platform planning to vehicle-specific adaptation, prototype integration, validation, and mass-production readiness. - Set execution plans for the carline PM team and coordinate across relevant engineering, product, system, and validation teams. - Lead a team to drive product planning aspects including data collection, ML ops, Data ops, in-car tests, KPI iterations, and customer management. - Drive issue resolution across software, hardware, vehicle, validation, and customer-facing workstreams using structured, data-driven decision-making. - Improve execution processes to increase development speed, integration efficiency, release quality, and delivery reliability. - Communicate continuously with customers to translate evolving requirements into product roadmaps and drive execution across cross-functional teams.
What you'll need
- BS/MS (or equivalent experience) in engineering with 15+ overall years of experience across both software and hardware platforms. - 8+ years of leadership experience. - Experience working in a software development environment. - Track record of leading the launch of technically complex products to customers, especially scaled L4 Robotaxi programs. - Demonstrated technical leadership and communication skills to drive alignment across organizations and with customers.
Skills: Autonomous Vehicles, L4 Robotaxi, productization, software and hardware platforms, validation
This role has been open 111 days — well above the 46-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
42
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Median days open
46 d
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (42 roles · 10 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 42 |
| Median days open | 21 d | 46 d (−25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: Autonomous Vehicles, L4 Robotaxi, productization, software and hardware platforms, validation
Who's hiring in this category
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How we counted: 42 open Technical Program Management (Automotive IC) roles from 10 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.