Senior Manager, Technical Program Management - Image Quality - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$240,000 - $379,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 8 October 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on Image Signal Processor and AI within NVIDIA’s system-on-chip.
About the role
This role leads the Sensor Image Quality ecosystem program team for NVIDIA's DRIVE and Jetson platforms.
What you'll do
- Recruit, grow, and lead a team of TPMs running image quality programs across Jetson and DRIVE.
- Set priorities across the camera ecosystem portfolio and direct engineering time.
- Lead the launch of a partner image quality certification program and AI-powered tuning tools.
- Own image quality readiness and critical issues for each software release.
- Build agentic AI workflows that scale bug triage, partner feedback, and support across the ecosystem.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Imaging Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years in software, imaging, or technical program management, including 3+ years managing TPMs or engineers.
- Familiarity with image sensors, the ISP pipeline, and image quality evaluation.
- Proven experience delivering embedded software or SDK releases with external partners.
- Hands-on use of agentic AI in program management, and judgment about where it fails.
Skills: Image Quality, ISP pipeline, embedded software, program management, AI models
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 41-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
38
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Median days open
41 d
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Median salary
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (38 roles · 8 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 38 |
| Median days open | 9 d | 41 d (−32 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: Image Quality, ISP pipeline, embedded software, program management, AI models
Who's hiring in this category
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How we counted: 38 open Technical Program Management (Automotive IC) roles from 8 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.