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title: 'Senior Product Manager at Torc Robotics'
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# Senior Product Manager at Torc Robotics

- **Company:** Torc Robotics
- **Location:** Ann Arbor, MI
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/torcrobotics/jobs/8883469002

## Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION: Lead efforts to develop high quality product definitions, user journeys, product requirements, and Operational Design Domain (ODD) specifications to deliver next generation on road autonomous driving technology that meets the highest safety standards while supporting the company’s commercial goals. Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders—including internal and external customers, engineering, regulatory, marketing, and commercialization teams—to establish product vision, scope, priorities, and roadmap, and ensure effective communication of these elements across all levels of planning and execution. Prioritize product features using customer feedback, market analysis, and business objectives, and effectively communicate the associated technical and commercial tradeoffs to engineering, fleet management, marketing, and commercialization teams. Track key product development milestones by establishing clear, measurable, and testable product metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Identify technical and execution risks that may impact critical product deliverables, and mitigate these risks by providing data driven recommendations and actions to the leadership team. Lead the evaluation and benchmarking of competitive and complementary products across the industry to ensure that Torc upholds the highest vehicle and operational safety standards and incorporates industry best practices. Lead team development and knowledge sharing initiatives by mentoring junior employees and contributing to the growth of organizational capabilities.

Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field with 3 years of industry experience, or alternatively a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics with 5 years of relevant industry experience. Experience must include: (1) Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Autonomous Driving technologies: Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Keeping Assist, Traffic Jam Assist, Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), Forward Collision Warning (FCW), Cross Traffic Collision Warning; (2) Sensing Technologies: Camera Systems, Automotive Radar Systems, LiDAR Systems, GNSS / GPS + IMU Ground Truth, Sensor Fusion; (3) safety and compliance frameworks, including those used by NHTSA and Euro NCAP; (4) Developing product requirements, roadmaps, product metrics, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); (5) Robotic Validation Systems: Steering Robots, Acceleration and Braking Robots, Guided Soft Target Robots, VRU Robotic Testing Platforms.

Salary: $197,226.00 - $222,900.00.

## About Torc Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Torc Robotics is an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck developing SAE Level 4 autonomous driving software for long-haul, hub-to-hub freight trucks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Daimler Truck)
- **Headquarters**: Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (additional offices in Fort Worth, TX; Ann Arbor, MI; Montréal, Canada)
- **Founded**: 2005 (as Torc Technologies)
- **Founders**: Group of Virginia Tech alumni (team from the DARPA Urban Challenge)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Autonomous vehicle technology / Trucking & freight logistics
- **Target customers**: B2B – large fleet operators and trucking companies (middle-mile hub-to-hub routes over 250 miles)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Drive the future of freight” by commercializing safe, self-driving trucks

## Products & Services
- **Torc Self-Driving Software**: Full-stack autonomy system (perception, planning, control) for SAE Level 4 operation, integrated into the Daimler Truck Freightliner Cascadia platform.
- **Autonomous-Ready Cascadia**: A redundant chassis with fail-safe steering, braking, power net, and secondary communications network built by Daimler Truck.
- **Testing & Validation**: Closed-course and public-road testing in Virginia, Texas, New Mexico, and 20+ U.S. states over the past 14 years.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private subsidiary of Daimler Truck)
- **Key Metric**: Commercial launch targeted for **2027**; first driverless (no safety driver) journey completed in **2025**. Acquired Algolux (Montréal) in 2023 for computer vision and ML expertise.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Daimler Truck (parent/owner), AAA (safety partnership), Transdev (shuttle partnership), Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, and major fleet operators.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding into Canada (Montréal office); headcount growing with 54 open positions posted on Greenhouse; Daimler Truck is building production-ready autonomous Cascadia chassis; years of real-world testing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep truck OEM relationship**: As an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck, Torc has direct integration into the leading Class 8 truck platform (Freightliner Cascadia).
- **20-year legacy**: Founded in 2005 from DARPA Urban Challenge roots; one of the first AV software companies to focus exclusively on trucking.
- **Safety-first design**: Redundant steering, braking, and communications, plus a partnership with AAA on safety criteria.
- **Focused product**: Targets only highway middle-mile (250+ miles), avoiding complex city driving – a clear, commercially viable use case.

## Strategic Focus
- **Commercialization**: First market-ready generation of self-driving trucks on sale in **2027**. Currently validating the system on public roads with safety drivers.
- **Scaling operations**: Expanding engineering centers (Montréal, Ann Arbor, Fort Worth) and building a robust data/ML pipeline at petabyte scale.
- **Talent development**: Growing “Emerging Talent” program (co-ops, internships, early career) and partnerships with educational institutions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as collaborative, ego-free, and innovative. “Everyone is empowered to solve challenges.” Open forums and accessible leadership.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Multiple remote positions available (U.S. and Canada), plus on-site roles in Blacksburg, Ann Arbor, Fort Worth, and Montréal.
- **Benefits (U.S.)**:
  - 100% company-paid employee premiums for medical, dental, vision
  - Generous front-loaded PTO, plus a winter shutdown (Christmas–New Year)
  - Fully paid parental leave (100% salary continuation)
  - 401(k) with company match, LTD/STD, life insurance, pet insurance, legal services
- **Benefits (Canada)**: Extended health/dental/vision, RRSP with DPSP matching, employer-paid life/AD&D, LTD.
- **Engineering culture**: Work on cutting-edge autonomy, perception, ML, and data infrastructure alongside world-class experts.

## Sources
1. [torc.ai/about-us](https://torc.ai/about-us/)
2. [torc.ai/careers](https://torc.ai/careers/)
3. [torc.ai/frequently-asked-questions](https://torc.ai/frequently-asked-questions/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/torcrobotics](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/torcrobotics)

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