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title: 'Staff Technical Program Manager at Stack AV'
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# Staff Technical Program Manager at Stack AV

- **Company:** Stack AV
- **Location:** Pittsburgh PA, OR
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stackav/jobs/5171813007

## Job description

About Stack:

Stack is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. Stack's autonomous technology incorporates cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and cloud technologies, empowering us to create innovative solutions that address the needs and challenges of the dynamic trucking transportation industry. With decades of experience creating and deploying real world systems for demanding environments, the Stack team is dedicated to developing an autonomous solution ecosystem tailored to the trucking industry's unique demands.

About the Role:

The Technical Program Management (TPM) team at Stack is a high-caliber, close-knit group of industry veterans with deep expertise spanning autonomous vehicles, commercial robotics, and startups. We operate as trusted strategic advisors to leadership, leveraging our technical background and talent for leading through influence to align diverse, elite engineering teams toward a shared vision.

As organizational multipliers, we own the execution of Stack's most complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes cross-functional programs. Leadership trusts us with the keys to our commercial autonomy roadmap, relying on our ability to break down silos, bridge hardware and software ecosystems, and synthesize executive strategy into operational reality. We don't just manage timelines; we design the communication loops and engineering frameworks that amplify the output of the entire organization.

Responsibilities:

- Manage the execution and communication of major, high-stakes cross-functional programs that require end-to-end alignment across the entire organization.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive technical roadmaps and tactical schedules, balancing near-term delivery milestones with Stack’s long-term commercial autonomy vision.
- Build deep, trust-based relationships with diverse cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering teams, push technical paths forward, and unify the organization around shared goals.
- Analyze plans and requirements with engineering leads to uncover opportunities, challenge assumptions, and safely accelerate the development and deployment schedule.
- Evaluate complex technical and resource trade-offs in constrained environments, framing clear choices and recommendations for leadership.
- Synthesize granular technical progress into high-impact insights for senior leadership, delivering data-driven arguments that help executives make difficult decisions in reviews and all-hands.
- Design and scale engineering processes within your programs, establishing operational frameworks that reduce friction and elevate efficiency across the broader organization.
- Explore new, highly complex technical domains as needed, stepping in proactively to fill leadership, execution, or process gaps to ensure program success.

Qualifications:

- Strong experience as a hands on engineer prior to becoming a TPM required in robotics, automotive, aerospace or technology domains is desired.
- Proven experience managing the integration of highly complex, multi-domain technical systems.
- Demonstrated experience effectively presenting to and interacting with executive leadership in a dynamic environment.
- Familiarity with typical agile software development lifecycles and waterfall hardware development lifecycles.
- Exceptional interpersonal and teamwork skills, with a demonstrated ability to build deep, trusting relationships.
- The ability to digest dense, complex technical discussions and accurately extract core conclusions, action items, and trade-offs.
- A hyper-organized mindset focusing with breath and depth on the technical details.
- Mastery over standard TPM toolbox (Managing burndown lists, Developing Roadmaps, building dependency maps, running workshops, and using the right amount of process in Jira).
- A proactive personal quality characterized by a willingness to fearlessly jump into unknown areas and learn new technical domains quickly.

## #LI-TT1

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We believe that diverse teams produce the best ideas and outcomes. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion, entrepreneurship, and innovation across gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and identity.

Check out our [Privacy Policy.](https://stackav.com/join/policy)

Please Note: Pursuant to its business activities and use of technology, Stack AV complies with all applicable U.S. national security laws, regulations, and administrative requirements, which can restrict Stack AV’s ability to employ certain persons in certain positions pursuant to a range of national security-related requirements. As such, this position may be contingent upon Stack AV verifying a candidate’s residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status. This position may also involve working with software and technologies subject to U.S. export control regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for Stack AV to obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing its technologies to certain persons. If Stack AV determines that a candidate’s residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status will require a license, prohibit the candidate from working in this position, or otherwise be subject to national security-related restrictions, Stack AV expressly reserves the right to either consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions Stack AV shall establish in its sole discretion, or, in the alternative, decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.

## About Stack AV

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Stack AV develops revolutionary AI-powered autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency for the trucking industry.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-backed; total funding $1B)
- **Headquarters**: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Bryan Salesky (CEO), Peter Rander (President), Brett Browning, Ph.D. (CTO) – all former co-founders or leaders of Argo AI.

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Autonomous vehicle technology / trucking logistics
- **Target Customers**: B2B – trucking fleets, freight carriers, and supply chain partners (enterprise)
- **Mission**: To create revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems that enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency in modern operations, specifically within the trucking industry.

## Products & Services
- **Autonomous Trucking System**: A full-stack autonomy solution integrating AI, robotics, machine learning, and cloud technologies into heavy-duty trucks. The system is designed for safe, reliable, and efficient driverless freight hauling. (Product type: Hardware + Software Suite)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding: **$1 billion** (Single venture round led by SoftBank, September 2023)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: SoftBank (lead investor); member of the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount growth: 228 employees as of early 2026 (+16.4% YoY, +39 people).
  - Active job postings increased 80% year-over-year (18 open roles).
  - Talent heavily recruited from leading autonomy companies: Argo AI (37), Cruise (23), Aurora (15), Waymo (7), Motional (16), Latitude AI (31), Uber/ATG.
  - Established a Safety Advisory Council (announced Dec 2023).
  - First CDL Operations Specialists hired in New Stanton, PA, and Oklahoma City, OK, indicating real-world testing and deployment.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Experienced Leadership & Team**: Founders/leadership have decades of experience deploying autonomous systems (CMU, Google, Argo AI, Uber ATG). Over half of the workforce is technical, with deep expertise from top AV companies.
- **Safety-First Culture**: Safety is embedded as the company’s foundation, supported by a dedicated Safety Advisory Council and transparent processes.
- **AI-First Approach**: Leverages cutting-edge AI, robotics, and ML to solve complex trucking challenges, differentiating from traditional ADAS or lane-keeping systems.
- **Strong Financial Backing**: $1B from SoftBank provides a multi-year runway to develop and commercialize without immediate revenue pressure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Development**: Completing the autonomous driving system for heavy-duty trucks, with ongoing testing on public roads (indicated by CDL operations specialists).
- **Partnerships & Standards**: Engaging with industry bodies (AVIA) and building a regulatory and safety framework to support deployment.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across autonomy, ML, software engineering, systems, and operations to accelerate development.
- **Operational Expansion**: Establishing operations hubs beyond Pittsburgh (New Stanton, PA; Oklahoma City, OK; Germany) to support fleet testing and deployment.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasis on safety, excellence, humility, transparency, grit, and passion. Employees describe a collaborative, ambitious environment focused on making a real impact.
- **Remote & Flexible Work**: Offers remote, office-based, and hybrid work modes. Many engineering roles are listed as “Pittsburgh, PA or Remote (US).”
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
  - Competitive 401k matching.
  - Open PTO plus 14 paid holidays (including a week-long winter break).
  - Paid leave for medical, parental (birth, adoption, foster), military, civic duty, and bereavement.
  - Annual lifestyle stipend (gym, home office, wellness).
- **Engineering Culture**: Teams are empowered to work on challenging problems in AI, perception, controls, ML infrastructure, and systems engineering. The tech stack includes C++, Python, ML frameworks, and cloud/infrastructure tools.
- **Growth Trajectory**: As a well-funded early-stage startup with strong talent draw and clear product focus, employees have significant ownership and growth potential.

## Sources
1. [Stack AV Homepage](https://stackav.com/)
2. [Stack AV About Page](https://stackav.com/about)
3. [Stack AV Join (Careers) Page](https://stackav.com/join)
4. [Stack AV Jobs on Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stackav)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page (via RocketReach data)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stackav)

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