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Staff Technical Product Manager, Aurora Architecture

Aurora
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted December 19, 2025
$181k - $290k
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Job Description

The Technical Product Manager will collaborate with engineering leaders to develop and optimize architectural solutions for Aurora's autonomous driving systems, ensuring alignment with business goals and enabling scalable hardware and software integration across vehicle platforms.

Key Responsibilities

  • Partner with senior engineering leaders to develop architectural proposals and evaluate new technologies.
  • Coordinate with engineering teams to ensure architecture aligns with business objectives and hardware transitions.
  • Transform complex challenges into actionable architectural solutions and improvements.
  • Drive the definition, recommendation, decision-making, and execution of major architectural initiatives.
  • Develop detailed engineering plans for architectural projects.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand product roadmaps and support future architectural needs.
  • Identify and remove obstacles to team execution, escalating issues as needed.
  • Facilitate regular executive program reviews and ensure alignment on architectural progress.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Product Manager, or Engineering Manager in autonomous systems, robotics, embedded systems, or software development, with an architecture focus.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Information Systems, or a related area.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adjust communication based on audience, including senior executives.
  • Strong technical aptitude and an ability to understand complex technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, and risks, and work closely with engineers.
  • Strong experience in project management with practical familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and flexibility to adapt and apply them when appropriate to improve and not hinder team execution velocity, quality, and efficacy.
  • Ability to work in either Mountain View, CA, with occasional travel expected to support architectural de-risking activities and cross-functional team alignment.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range: 181-290K per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
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