May Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May develops and deploys autonomous vehicles (AVs) powered by our innovative Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) technology that literally reimagines the way AVs think. 

Our vehicles do more than just drive themselves - they provide value to communities, bridge public transit gaps and move people where they need to go safely, easily and with a lot more fun. We’re building the world’s best autonomy system to reimagine transit by minimizing congestion, expanding access and encouraging better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant and livable spaces. Since our founding in 2017, we’ve given more than 300,000 autonomy-enabled rides to real people around the globe. And we’re just getting started. We’re hiring people who share our passion for building the future, today, solving real-world problems and seeing the impact of their work. Join us.

Job Summary

The Autonomy Release & Lifecycle Management department is responsible for deploying autonomy’s software to the May fleet, setting up and supporting site launches as well as supporting the core autonomy teams in their development efforts through issue triage and simulation support. 

This Manger, Autonomy Technical Release will be responsible for leading the growth, development and release strategy for the May Mobility's autonomy on-vehicle stack. Components include but are not limited to core autonomy (behavior, perception, controls, systems), ADK hardware systems (Autonomy Driving Kit) firmware, embedded systems, configuration management and branch management, data and data support, cloud connection, etc. This role helps define and shape the way May deploys its software to the fleet, and should hold a vision and execution of what scale looks like for May Mobility when it comes to software deployment. Key to success in this role is to align with other departments and business units to develop a holistic strategy for growth. 

As a leader, you will set an example of initiative, data-driven decision making, design, and trouble-shooting. You will own the release deployment decisions and evaluation of the release to ensure a safe, reliable, high quality, and fast release. You will work cross-functionally with other teams such as safety, test & validation, autonomy integrity and validation, product, operations and business development to ensure releases are meeting expectations of the customers. 

This position reports to the Senior Director, Release & Lifecycle management.

Essential Responsibilities

• This is a player-coach role where the Manager, Technical Release will be responsible for both demonstrating and developing team core competencies with the mission of developing a strong team to deploy May Mobility software stack at scale in a safe, reliable, and quality manner.
• Take initiative to understand every aspect of the May vehicle architecture - hardware, software, networking, configurations - all of it.
• Troubleshoot and support solutions to challenging field issues.
• Collaborate and lead system-wide improvements when working with other teams throughout May. Use your team's influence and gain support from other departments to meet May’s objective of scalable quality and deployment. 
• Assess and develop approaches that improve performance and evaluation in a variety of ways (software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop simulations approaches)
• Assess and improve system evaluation for robustness to systematic stochastic and transient issues that impact autonomous vehicle performance.
• Be a technical thought leader to champion May Mobility’s mission, vision, values and company priorities.
• Set and manage Release metrics and KPIs alongside OKR progress set at the company level. Such as release performance and output, velocity to create and deploy with internal processes as well as rollout to sites - including 3rd party operations and globally. 
• Provide strategy and execution to remove blockers from fast, reliable, and quality autonomy releases - including topics such as scaling the deployments of 1000’s of vehicles per site. 
• Escalate critical issues and opportunities within the autonomy team to engineering leadership, making clear recommendations to maximize the effectiveness of the team and release with respect to company priorities

Skills and Abilities

Success in this role typically requires the following competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to increase team motivation and effectiveness through effective mentoring, challenging team assumptions, and status quo. 
• Effective verbal and written communication skills to convey ideas, instructions, and feedback clearly and efficiently. 
• Strong decision-making skills to analyze situations, evaluate options, and make timely and informed decisions.
• Aptitude for identifying problems, analyzing root causes, and implementing effective solutions across multi-disciplinary stakeholders.  
• Ability to plan strategically, anticipate future trends, and develop long-term roadmaps to drive organizational success. 
• Flexibility and willingness to adapt to changing circumstances, priorities, and environments. 

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates most successful in this role typically hold the following qualifications or comparable knowledge or experience:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or an applied engineering field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in autonomous robotics system engineering with a broad focus across multiple aspects of autonomous robot components.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in managing high performance team of technical nature, as direct or indirect 
• Previous experience working in the software development lifecycle bringing products to deployment
• Demonstrated strong troubleshooting and analytic skills at the system and subsystem level.  
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and clearly about complex system behaviors, structures, and issues.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Master degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or applied engineering
• 6+ years of experience in autonomous robotic systems (title to reflect experience) 
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and branch management, CI/CD
• Experience with deploying software to autonomous cars, trucks, or similar vehicles.
• Prior experience in using simulation for test and evaluation
• Strong data analytic skillset to make decisions 
• Experience in a startup environment
• Creating solutions that disrupt the market

Physical Requirements

• Standard office working conditions which includes but is not limited to:
• Prolonged sitting
• Prolonged standing
• Prolonged computer use

Travel required? -  Minimal: 1%-10%

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May Mobility is an equal opportunity employer.  All applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetics or any other legally protected basis.   Below, you have the opportunity to share your preferred gender pronouns, gender, ethnicity, and veteran status with May Mobility to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring and recruitment processes. Completion of these questions is entirely voluntary.  Any information you choose to provide will be kept confidential, and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. If you believe that you will need any type of accommodation, please let us know.

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