Senior Program Manager, Vehicle Configuration & Change Control

Atoms•San Francisco, CA

9d•$160,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Atoms is seeking a Senior Program Manager to own vehicle configuration and change control. This role involves managing the record of hardware and software on R&D vehicles and the processes governing changes. The responsibilities include defining the configuration data model, the capture path for accuracy, and change processes for efficient testing. The role requires working across multiple vehicle platforms with diverse hardware, compute, and software, and necessitates regular time spent in the garage and around vehicles.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field is required, with 3+ years in technical program management, technical product management, engineering program management, or a comparable role. Equivalent hands-on experience will be considered in place of the degree.
Demonstrated ownership of a technical program or internal system end to end, from requirements through delivery and sustained adoption by users who were not required to use it.
Experience in environments where physical asset state and software state must be kept reconciled, in autonomous vehicles, automotive, EV, robotics, or aerospace.
Working knowledge of engineering change and configuration management, including BOM structure and revision control, ECR and ECO workflow, effectivity, serialization and genealogy, and as-designed to as-built reconciliation.
Working knowledge of software configuration and release management, including version and build identity, update and flashing paths, parameter and calibration management, and fleet-wide version reporting.
Demonstrated experience designing an operational process and measuring adherence to it, with the ability to describe what was measured and what the results showed.
Strong written communication across requirements, decision records, and status reporting, for technical and executive audiences.
Ability to work onsite five days a week in San Francisco, with regular time in the garage and around machines, and some travel to deployment and test sites.

Responsibilities

Own the record of as-designed, as-built, and as-running configuration for every platform, covering hardware revision and serialization, harness and sensor set, compute generation, calibration state, and firmware and software versions.
Define the configuration data model, including item and revision structure, effectivity rules, and platform abstractions that hold across differing vehicle types.
Define how configuration data is captured at the point of work, ensuring build, modification, service, and software update events update the record through existing technician and engineer tools.
Own record accuracy as a measured metric, including audit methods and cadence.
Establish how to determine which properties are eligible for a given software release, test campaign, or data collection mission, and the reasons for vehicle exclusion.
Define how logged data and test results are tied to the configuration that produced them, and partner with software and data teams on provenance usage in validation and training workflows.
Define configuration requirements for PLM, ERP, MES, and inventory systems, and own the integration design between these systems and the configuration record.
Partner with vehicle integration, manufacturing and technician teams, autonomy and software release, safety, supply chain, and operations, and resolve conflicting requirements across them.