Senior/Staff Software Technical Program Manager (Systems Engineering)

Location: Mountain View, California (HQ)

Salary: $160,360–$240,540+ base pay annually, plus annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology and a universal autonomy platform for robotaxis, logistics fleets, personal vehicles, and other mobility applications.

What you will do

• Define scene sets and technical validation coverage for safety-critical, edge-case, and adversarial autonomy scenarios.
• Design large-scale simulation campaigns, including scenario selection, variation strategies, fidelity, metrics, and results analysis.
• Develop fault-injection and degraded-mode validation strategies with Systems Engineering, Controls, and Hardware teams.
• Translate system requirements and failure modes into testable scenarios and validation evidence.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, scenario definitions, tests, and audit-ready evidence.
• Communicate validation logic and coverage gaps to engineering leads and senior stakeholders while partnering with the Systems Validation TPM on execution.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience in a Technical Program Manager role, preferably in autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, or an adjacent industry.
• Deep familiarity with scenario-based testing, coverage-driven validation, or autonomy stack evaluation.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals, including requirements traceability, V&V methodology, interface management, and failure mode analysis.
• Ability to engage technically with autonomy, simulation, and hardware engineers.
• Comfort owning ambiguous technical problems and driving them to structured, defensible conclusions.

Nice to have

• Experience designing or executing large-scale simulation campaigns and analyzing results.
• Familiarity with SOTIF (ISO 21448), UL 4600, or safety-of-the-intended-functionality concepts.
• Experience with ODD analysis, scenario taxonomy development, or safety case construction.
• Experience with CARLA, LGSVL, or proprietary autonomous vehicle simulation environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Annual performance bonus and equity eligibility.
• Competitive benefits package.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety.
• Equal opportunity employment without discrimination based on legally protected characteristics.