| Location | Foster City, CA |
| Salary | $211,000–$278,000 Per Year |
SeniorStaff Technical Product Manager - Autonomy Performance & Data
Foster City CASoftware - Autonomy Integration Hybrid
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About the Team
The Autonomy Development Platform ADP team builds the foundational tools and infrastructure that allow Zoox to define, validate, and scale driving excellence. We empower AI QA and Mapping teams to rapidly iterate on the core pillars of our performance, Safety, Progress, and Comfort. Our mission is to transform complex fleet and simulation data into a high-velocity development loop, ensuring every software release is more performant and rider-ready than the last.
The Role
As the Technical Product Manager for Autonomy Performance & Data, you will be the architect of the developer experience for Zooxs AI engineers. Your goal is to increase AI developer Quality of Life and efficiency by ensuring our engineers can get more done with less manual overhead.
You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of how we measure and curate data. This includes modernizing and unifying our experimentation platforms and building the discovery tools that find needles in the haystack across petabytes of sensor data. This is a high-impact role that sits at the intersection of Perception, Prediction, and Planning, ensuring that the right code gets merged and our autonomous stack stays ahead of the curve.
Responsibilities
• Unify the Experimentation Ecosystem • Define and execute the strategy to consolidate disparate performance measurement and metrics tools into a single authoritative platform for all Autonomy engineers. • Scale the Data Flywheel • Own the roadmap for large-scale data management and mining tools. • Enable engineers to discover critical edge cases and curate the high-impact datasets needed to train and measure Zooxs state-of-the-art models. • Accelerate Developer Velocity • Build high-fidelity AB testing and comparative analysis tools that allow developers to validate branch-level changes with high confidence before hitting a Pull Request. • Drive AI Developer Efficiency • Act as the primary advocate for the AI engineering community, identifying workflow bottlenecks and delivering a roadmap that increases developer efficiency and ensures high-quality code merges. • Bridge Technical Domains • Partner deeply with Perception and Behavioral AI leads to translate complex algorithmic requirements into a scalable tool strategy that measures and elevates driving performance.
Qualifications
Technical Product Leadership 5 years of experience as a TPM or PM specifically within internal tools developer platforms or AIML infrastructure.
Domain Expertise Deep familiarity with the ML development lifecycle, including data curation, model training, and performance evaluation metrics.
Data Fluency Comfortable engaging with engineers on data pipelines, large-scale search (e.g., embeddings or metadata mining), and quantitative analysis.
Strategic Execution Proven track record of managing complex technical migrations and modernizing legacy toolsets without disrupting team velocity.
User-Centric Mindset A passion for Developer Experience and a drive to build tools that make engineering teams more productive and satisfied.
Salary Range $211,000 - $278,000 per year
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