Technical Project Manager in Sunnyvale, CA

Summary:

• The Client Research Team brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers, and engineers to create the future of AR and VR, which together will become as universal and essential as smartphones and personal computers are today
• The Surreal research group at Client is seeking exceptional Technical Program Managers to solve the next generation of research challenges on the path to building future machine perception enabled technologies.
• This role focuses on formulating a new generation of end-to-end real-time 3D scene understanding systems working across novel mobile sensor design, sensor fusion, state estimation, computer vision, large-scale reconstruction and localization, as well as large-scale online inference and optimization.

Duties:

• You will define program requirements, deliverables, schedule and track progress, coordinate collaborations with other internal teams as well as manage partner and vendor relationships.
• To be successful, you will be eliminating barriers to your team's success, clearly communicating results to all stakeholders and ensuring the big picture stays in focus while digging into the details on specific issues.
• Ideal team members are adaptable and resilient, eager to attack unfamiliar problems with curiosity and tenacity, and able to use a light touch to find ways to help the team be more efficient.

Program compliance:

• Gain deep understanding of program level requirements on HW/SW timeline, SW branch management, task management.
• Help collect, synthesize, and communicate program level operational requirements between Client and IQ teams, and ensure IQ delivery follows program requirements in terms of schedule and process.
• Drive Client (privacy) review process to ensure policy compliance and expedient approval.
• Represent the IQ team for status updates in program level reviews(e.g. TPM alignment, bug review, shiproom review).

Client alignment:

• Work with IQ stakeholders (Eng, QA, PMs, TPMs) to map out Client dependencies of IQ delivery.
• Build Client agreement on IQ-related deliverables and manage the delivery progress.
• Unblock IQ team execution from Client. Triage IQ-related tasks to appropriate Client stakeholders.

Team-level execution:

• Work with engineering teams to develop IQ project plans based on product requirements and program guidelines.
• Drive project execution. Communicate clear priorities to internal and vendor IQ engineers, and track the progress to ensure on-time delivery.
• Improve and manage the IQ team task system.
• Help organize IQ-related meetings and reviews. Present IQ status update in executive IQ reviews.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of program management experience with strong communication & presentation skills
• Embedded Camera software pipeline structure and development planning background
• Experience leading a team from concept to deployment
• Project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group collaboration experience across more than one geographic location.
• Ability to travel 30%

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers and hardware engineers.
• Mobile Camera software/Image Signal Processing or equivalent embedded software integration background

Surrounding team & key projects           

• Candidate will be working on : RL products, smart glasses, VR/AR products specifically with camera systems, "Image Quality" related verbiage .. like Auto White Balance, Auto Exposure, Texture etc
• Candidate will manage cross functional partners including Vendors and stakeholders.
• Strong written communications skills in emails/documentations internally, will occasionally present in office with other team/vendors/stakeholders (strong presentation skills needed)
• Camera software embedded system experience, smartphone experiences, image quality experience is also great

Must-Have Skills

1. 5+ years of program management experience with strong communication & presentation skills
2. Embedded Camera software pipeline structure and development planning background/experience
3. Experience leading a team from concept to deployment (able to speak on this during the interview)

Nice-to-have Skills

1. AR/VR experience (Client preferred)
2. Experience working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers, software engineers and hardware engineers.
3. Mobile Camera software/Image Signal Processing or equivalent embedded software integration background

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