Meet the Team:

The Autonomous Vehicle Product Release Engineering team ensures that Torc’s products meet the highest standards for quality, safety, and functionality. The Director of this group will provide senior-level leadership to the function charged with the definition, design, development of the release strategy of Torc’s driverless products across a wide array of teams and components including software, hardware, systems, architecture, and suppliers.

What you’ll do:

• Provide leadership, direction and definition for the release management function including planning, scheduling, coordination, and implementation.

• Develop and maintain best in class state of the art release framework

• Define targets for product risk, reliability, availability, robustness, security, traceability, defensibility, and quality

• Drive execution toward the target via validation and release strategies

• Develop metrics to demonstrate release readiness and drive adoption via development cycle modifications

• Assess technical quality of system, safety, and security artifacts

• Lead team of technical experts; effectively manage individual goals and objectives, performance, and employee development.

• Accomplishes department objectives by supervising staff and organizing and monitoring work processes with the highest degree of quality and safety.

• Collaborate with executive leadership in engineering, PMO, product management, System Engineering, Testing, System safety, quality and operations on workflows and artifacts

What you’ll need to Succeed:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent with 12+ years relevant experience OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent with 15+ years relevant experience

• 5+ years overall progressive technical systems or software development experience

• 3+ years’ experience leading engineers in the delivery of software solutions that include complex algorithm development and data models, with emphasis on best practices in coding standards, testing, and systems integration

• Minimum 3+ years performing personnel management activities including but not limited to performance planning and evaluations, corrective actions, and conflict resolution, recruiting and onboarding, and ensuring compliance to software policies and procedures.

• Proven experience in applying standards like ISO 26262, 21448, 21434; and experience applying methods like STPA, FMEA, FTA, DRBFM, 8D Analysis ect.

Bonus Points!

• Doctorate Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering or equivalent with 10+ years relevant experience

• Experience with AV and ADAS applications

• Experience with production and series automotive safety critical projects

• Experience with data driven validation/formal methods

• Experience with ML/AI based products

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r

Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:

• A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees

• 401K plan with a 6% employer match

• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)

• Company-wide holiday office closures

• AD+D and Life Insurance

$60,000 — $105,000/year