Senior Autonomy Technical Release Manager (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan — hybrid

Salary: $152,000–$170,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops and deploys autonomous vehicles powered by Multi-Policy Decision Making technology to improve transportation safety, accessibility, sustainability, and public transit access.

What you will do

• Coordinate end-to-end software and autonomy engineering releases across engineering, validation, safety, DevOps, and deployment teams.
• Track scope, dependencies, risks, timelines, quality, and release readiness while providing status updates on release, project, and program progress.
• Facilitate collaboration across autonomy, engineering, safety, legal, business, product, customer operations, finance, and strategy stakeholders.
• Lead production incident management, including impact assessment, stakeholder communication, remediation tracking, containment, and resolution.
• Own hotfix and commercial-fix release lanes and direct urgent mitigation and corrective releases in a controlled, auditable manner.
• Use incident and root-cause analysis findings to improve release planning, validation coverage, and delivery processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; an engineering, computer science, or similarly technical degree is preferred.
• At least 2 years of experience as an engineer or in another highly technical area.
• At least 5 years of technical project management experience, including team management, project planning, status reporting, and risk management.
• Experience leading complex, multi-team release programs and production incident or emergency-response workflows.
• Ability to clarify and document ambiguous requirements and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understanding of software and hardware development lifecycles, integration processes, and test and validation complexity.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in Ann Arbor with minimal travel expected: 1%–10%.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, including dependent care options.
• Retirement benefits with an immediately vested employer safe-harbor match.
• Paid parental leave, phased return to work, flexible vacation, and paid company holidays.
• Total Wellness Program with resources supporting overall wellbeing.