Technical Program Manager, Operations and AI Enablement

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• We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
• As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
• When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
• Workplace: Hybrid, 3 days in the office Location: Foster City, CA
• Our Advanced Hardware Engineering (AHE) team is responsible for delivering the compute and controls hardware, infotainment and telematics control units, and electrical components that power our future fleet of self-driving vehicles. We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to lead AHE Operations including Quarterly Planning, budgeting, and various other operational improvement initiatives. You will also lead the definition, development and roll out of AI automation tools that empower AHE TPMs and Engineering to significantly elevate their productivity.  In this role, you will work cross-functionally with engineering teams and partners across hardware, firmware, software, vehicle engineering, procurement, and manufacturing. Guided by our core principles, you will help deliver AHE
• Responsibilities      • Lead AHE Operations: Lead AHE Quarterly Planning process, budgeting, and various other operational improvement initiatives. These initiatives may include for example developing systematic approaches to our JIRA planning and issue management frameworks. Assist in TPM processes and continuous improvement frameworks that increase engineering velocity and system reliability.     • Lead AHE AI tools and scaling: Lead the definition, development and roll out of AI automation tools that empower AHE TPMs and Engineering to significantly elevate their productivity via agentic integration across JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Google Suite, and other IT tools.     • Drive Issue Resolution: Own AHE’s JIRA hygiene and issue-resolution targets, suppor
• Required Qualifications      • BS/MS degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent job experience     • At least 6 years of experience in Technical Program Management. Strong track record of leading and delivering complex cross-functional programs across hardware and/or software.     • Processes and operations: Hands-on familiarity with end-to-end product development processes with proficiency in tools required to manage complex programs (i.e. Gantt charts, risk tracking and reporting, Smartsheet, JIRA, etc.).     • AI: Proven understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and AI tools such as Claude and Gemini. Proficiency in agentic coding workflows using Cursor, Claude Code, Visual Studio Code, Windsurf or other In
• Preferred Qualifications      • AI: Proven experience with building AI-based solutions in the SMB/Enterprise spaces to automate workflows across JIRA, Confluence, Google Suite, Slack and other productivity tools.     • Operations: Previous product development Operations Program Management experience spanning areas such as budgeting, organization-wide planning cycles, risk management, reporting (JIRA, dashboards) and process development. 
• Salary Range     • $110,000 - 130,000     • The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience 
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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