System Engineering - Technical Program Manager

Job/Position Summary

Responsibilities:

Multimedia -

• Create program timing plans for multimedia features across audio, video, media playback, tuner and streaming sources, based on available resources and required features for the software teams
• Work with cross-functional teams inside IVI and across the organization to evaluate, develop and clarify requirements, then decompose them into consumable work tasks for developers and testers
• Drive cross-functional execution between multimedia software, audio, HMI, integration and validation teams
• Prioritize and drive software defects to closure to meet software release timing, leading bug triage where next steps on open issues are identified and assigned
• Evaluate incoming feature requests and identify future resource needs against program capacity
• Maintain the dependency map between multimedia features and the platform and middleware capabilities they rely on

Platform and board support package -

• Own the BSP delivery schedule with the silicon vendor and Tier 1, covering SoC bring-up, kernel, device drivers, hardware abstraction layers, power management and board revisions
• Drive platform milestone readiness: bring-up gates, BSP drops, integration branches and hand-off points into application teams
• Manage dependencies for the engineering team including procurement of development benches, sample boards and test platforms in support of execution
• Track platform defects and non-functional targets such as boot and resume time, memory footprint, thermal behavior, power states and audio and video latency against program commitments
• Run the regular cadence with vendor program managers, and hold go and no-go reviews where the technical merits of open issues are weighed to make a release decision
• Communicate program status, progress and risks to stakeholders, escalating decisions needed to the heads of PMO

Requirements:

• 5+ years of technical program management on embedded or platform software, including ownership of a delivery schedule that depended on a third party
• Working technical fluency in embedded platform software: board support packages, SoC bring-up, kernel and driver delivery, and the judgment to tell a platform issue from an application issue
• Demonstrated history of communicating with engineering managers on technical topics, distilling detail into decisions, and driving those decisions to closure
• Experience managing silicon vendors, Tier 1 suppliers or external software partners against committed dates and quality gates
• Experience analyzing and decomposing requirements into work tasks, and running defect triage across organizational boundaries
• Ability to build and maintain dependency maps between feature commitments and platform readiness, and to communicate the consequences of a slip clearly
• Strong written and verbal communication, comfortable escalating to director and PMO level with a recommendation rather than a status.

Preferred Skills:

• 8-10yrs of experience as TPM preferably with Infotainment experience and should have full stack system knowledge
• Automotive infotainment experience, particularly multimedia: audio routing and mixing, video pipelines, media frameworks, tuner and streaming integration
• Familiarity with Android Automotive OS, Embedded Linux, QNX or RTOS platform software, and hypervisor-based cockpit architectures
• Exposure to multimedia frameworks and interfaces such as ALSA, GStreamer, media HAL layers or equivalent
• Experience with cockpit SoC platforms, for example Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive, NXP i.MX, Renesas R-Car or TI Jacinto
• Understanding of infotainment power management strategy across the platform, including sleep and wake states and low-voltage power distribution behavior
• Knowledge of automotive communication protocols and services: , Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP, UDS and DoIP
• Experience with software containers, remote software deployment and OTA delivery into production vehicles
• Familiarity with secure boot, secure key management and cybersecurity requirements as they touch platform releases
• Vehicle program cadence experience: bench and vehicle build phases, software release trains, and launch readiness gates
• Tooling: Jira, Confluence, Jama for requirements tracking, Git-based workflows, and program reporting or dashboard tools
• Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262 or equivalent process exposure
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical field

Compensation and Benefits:

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time KPIT employee, you are eligible for the following benefits:

• Geo Blue PPO and HSA plan.
• MetLife - Dental and Vision plan.
• Healthcare and Dependent care flexible spending account(FSA).
• 401k with employer match.
• Company-paid Basic Life and Long-term disability insurance.
• Voluntary benefits include Critical Illness, Hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft, and legal service.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Paid Holidays.
• Employee discounts and perks.
• Gym benefit.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS /COMPETENCIES

JIRA

Confluence

MS Project

Gantt Charts

Roadmap Software

Bug Triage Tools

Dependency Mapping Tools

SoC Bring-up Tools

Kernel Debugging

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IVI

BSP

PREFFERED SKILLS /COMPETENCIES

Android Automotive OS

Embedded Linux

QNX or RTOS

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