Senior Technical Program Manager, Verification and Validation

Job overview

The Senior Technical Program Manager, Verification and Validation role is onsite in Foster City, CA. Base salary is $202,000–$236,000 per year. The role supports Zoox’s work to develop a full-stack autonomous mobility solution for cities. The position translates corporate strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps and coordinates execution across software, hardware, vehicle engineering, and product teams. It helps teams build evaluation pipelines and scalable systems for assessing autonomous behavior while tracking risks, milestones, and progress.

What you'll do

• Partner with Autonomy Verification and Validation engineering managers to develop roadmaps, timelines, and deliverables
• support software and data engineering teams building evaluation pipelines using statistics, simulation, and other methods
• help build scalable autonomy evaluation systems
• identify gaps, escalate risks, drive bug closure, and contribute to test coverage tracking
• communicate progress and unblock teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior technical program manager

verification and validation

foster city ca

zoox

autonomous vehicles

autonomy

engineering program management

software engineering

hardware

simulation

risk management

$202k–$236k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Paid time off, health insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, Amazon RSUs, and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights.

Why this role

The role works across engineering teams on autonomy evaluation and scalable systems.

About the employer

Zoox is hiring for this role. Industry: Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables. Sector: 33.