Technical Project Manager

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 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 Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds 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.

Location: Foster City CA

Responsibilities
Own the delivery status of specific attribute roadmap milestones. You ensure that on track is a reality not just a status color by identifying and clearing blockers before they stall progress.
Work 1:1 with engineering and test leads to surface local execution risks such as vehicle downtime instrumentation delays or hardware shortages and implement immediate recovery plans.
Run maintain and continuously improve our JIRA structures sprint cadences and reporting rituals. Your goal is to create a system that allows engineers to focus on engineering while self-coordinating through your framework.
Manage and disposition all cross-functional requests ensuring dependencies between stakeholders are clearly defined and closed.
Translate moving targets and technical complexities into concise actionable updates for leadership.

Qualifications
2 years of experience in project management and a Bachelors in Business Communications Engineering or a related field.
Experience with resource management software (e.g. JIRA) to develop project plans and track asset availability against timelines.
Successful track record of delivering multiple complex automotive technical projects in parallel.
High degree of understanding of vehicle testing and development. You should understand system interactions and dependencies.
Familiarity with prototype or pre-production vehicle testing and development.
Expert-level ability to structure boards workflows and dashboards that provide real-time visibility into project health without creating admin debt for engineers.
A closer mentality with a high sense of ownership. You are known for closing loops without supervision and preventing scope creep in fast-moving environments.
Calm under pressure concise in communication and capable of synthesizing shifting priorities into a clear path forward.

Bonus Qualifications
Background in Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering or a related field.
Experience in a startup or high-growth execution-first environment.
Familiarity with vehicle development cycles and prototype hardware management.
Experience with autonomous vehicle platforms and software development.

Salary Range
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The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates 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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