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# Technical Account Director, Automotive at Parallel Domain

- **Company:** Parallel Domain
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/paralleldomain/1e5ff3cd-3fdc-4516-8db7-3d92e1809c3b

## Job description

Parallel Domain's mission is to enable our partners to bring autonomy and physical AI to the world faster, safer, and with higher quality. We believe physical AI and autonomy have the power to create a safer and more productive world, and we are building the simulation infrastructure to make that future real. Our high-fidelity, fully controllable, software-in-the-loop sensor simulation products give the leaders in autonomous driving, drone delivery, eVTOL, robotics, and beyond the realism, accuracy, and confidence they need to test and validate their systems at scale. In autonomy and physical AI, there is no margin for error.

## The Role

We are hiring a Technical Account Director to own highly strategic relationships with OEM customers with multiple entities in their corporate families. These are multi-year enterprise engagements with stakeholders across engineering, perception, planning, and executive leadership in both the US and Japan. The stakes are high and the accounts are growing.

You will be the single point of contact for this account. You own the relationship, the program, and the commercial expansion. You run the cadence, you build the org map, and you drive alignment across every active workstream. Engineers, FDEs, product, and executives all plug into the account through you.

This is a technical role. You will sit in rooms with perception leads, simulation engineers, and ML infrastructure architects and you need to hold your own. You need to understand the sim-to-real gap, how sensor simulation works, what makes a replica production-grade, and where the hard tradeoffs live in customer integration. You do not need to write code. You do need to anticipate where a technical approach might hit a wall and proactively recommend a better path. You also need to know when to pull in our FDEs and engineers for hands-on product depth.

## What you will do

- Own the account end to end: relationship, technical guidance, commercial, escalations, expansion, and renewal.

- Be the single point of contact for every inbound and outbound communication with the customer. Set and hold internal SLAs on response times.

- Guide the customer's technical approach to integration, simulation usage, and replica adoption. Spot risks early and proactively recommend the path that gets them to production faster.

- Program manage 5 to 8 concurrent workstreams across PD and customer teams, driving alignment on status, progress, blockers, and decisions between both sides.

- Build and maintain a deep org map across the customer's corporate family: decision makers, champions, blockers, budget holders, and how the entities connect to each other.

- Run the customer cadence: weekly tactical syncs with the working team, monthly steering with leadership, quarterly executive business reviews with our exec team.

- Drive multi-year account planning, expansion into new teams and use cases, and pricing conversations.

- Coordinate internal PD resources (FDEs, engineering, product, finance, legal) so the customer sees one face and gets one answer.

- Partner with our executive sponsors on the most senior customer relationships.

## What we are looking for

- An engineering background. BS or MS in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics, or a related field. You started your career as an engineer and transitioned into customer-facing technical roles.

- 8+ years of experience, with meaningful time owning complex enterprise technical accounts. Experience with global OEM customers is a strong plus.

- Technical fluency in simulation, perception, sensor systems, ADAS tooling, ML infrastructure, or autonomous systems. You can discuss sim-to-real gap, lidar modeling, camera ISP pipelines, or HD map ontology without leaning on a teammate for every question.

- Track record of managing multi-million dollar enterprise relationships at the depth this role requires. You have owned expansion, pricing, and strategic planning, not renewals alone.

- Deep understanding of how large, matrixed organizations make decisions: org structure, procurement cycles, stakeholder dynamics, and the difference between a champion and a decision maker.

- Program management instinct. You naturally track multiple concurrent workstreams, hold people to deadlines, and surface blockers before they become crises.

- Strong commercial judgment: you drive contract structure, pricing, and expansion conversations. Relationship management is table stakes, not the ceiling.

- Calm under pressure. This account has weight, visibility, and urgency. You absorb that and keep the team moving.

- Fully remote. Must be willing to travel internationally, including Japan.

Strong signals

- 3 to 5 years as an IC engineer at an OEM, Tier 1, or AV company before moving into customer-facing roles.

- Experience as a Technical Program Manager, Technical Account Director, or Customer Engineering Lead at a simulation, developer tools, or autonomous systems company.

- Experience managing OEM relationships in automotive or trucking, especially with international stakeholders.

- Familiarity with closed-loop simulation, scenario-based testing, or sensor-in-the-loop workflows.

## About Parallel Domain

Parallel Domain is the trusted sensor simulation and reconstruction software for physical AI. We turn customer capture data into real-fidelity replicas with deterministic multi-sensor simulation running on top. The largest autonomy programs in the world use our products to validate perception at the scale safety demands.

We are a Series B company backed by Foundry Group, Costanoa Ventures, Toyota Ventures, and others. Our team includes engineers from Waymo, Cruise, Apple, NVIDIA, and Google. We are fully remote and growing fast.

## About Parallel Domain

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Parallel Domain provides production-grade sensor simulation and reconstruction software that enables autonomous systems to test and validate perception stacks at scale using high-fidelity digital twins.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, total funding $43.9M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Kevin McNamara (Founder, Chief Product Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Autonomous driving, drone delivery, eVTOL, robotics – simulation software for perception testing.
- **Target customers**: Enterprise autonomy teams at OEMs, mobility companies, and robotics firms (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose**: “Bridging the gap between simulation and the real world, ensuring autonomous systems perform flawlessly when it counts most.”

## Products & Services
- **PD Replica**: Generates near pixel-perfect neural reconstructions from real-world drive or flight logs (camera, lidar, GPS). Output includes world physics, HD maps, scene segmentation, dynamic agent reconstruction, and object insertion. Used for deterministic, closed-loop and open-loop testing.
- **Sensor Simulation API**: Software-in-the-loop simulation for camera, lidar, and radar. Fully controllable, deterministic, and integrable with CI/CD pipelines. Supports multi-sensor configurations across geographies, weather, and lighting.
- **Data Lab** (launched 2023): Self-serve API for synthetic data generation, allowing teams to create variations of scenes and test edge cases that real-world collection cannot reliably produce.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $16.2M (most recent disclosed valuation per GetLatka, 2025/2026).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$5M – $5.4M (2025); Total Funding $43.9M.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: March Capital (led Series B), Foundry Group (led Series A), Costanoa Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures (seed).
- **Growth Signals**: +2% headcount growth YoY (41 employees as of 2026); active job postings increasing +25% YoY; expanding into new verticals (aviation, warehouse robotics); launch of PD Replica (2024) and Data Lab (2023) showing product innovation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Production-ready fidelity**: Measurable sim-to-real gap reports that quantify how closely a replica matches the original scene – not just visual but auditable for regulatory readiness.
- **Deterministic multi-sensor simulation**: Camera, lidar, and radar in a single platform, with full control over trajectories, lighting, and weather.
- **Works with messy fleet data**: Ingests imperfect, real-world capture logs and converts them into reusable simulation assets.
- **Integration-first**: API-driven, compatible with existing autonomy stacks and CI/CD pipelines.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling reconstruction capabilities to turn every mile driven into a reusable simulation asset.
- Expanding industry reach beyond automotive into drone delivery, eVTOL, and warehouse robotics.
- Deepening partnerships with OEMs and enterprise customers to embed simulation into their development lifecycle.
- Continuing to invest in R&D for neural reconstruction and deterministic sensor modeling.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven team working on critical safety technology for autonomous systems. Emphasis on “production-grade” quality and measurable trust.
- **Work model**: Remote-first with offices in San Francisco (HQ), Vancouver, Karlsruhe, and Palo Alto. Many roles are remote-friendly (e.g., Senior Linux Graphics Engineer, Senior SRE).
- **Engineering focus**: Strong engineering team (48% technical staff), with talent from EA, Shopify, Scale AI, Amazon, and Meta. Open roles include Director of Engineering (Simulation & Rendering), Senior SRE, Principal Technical Artist, and Product Manager.
- **Growth opportunities**: Company is still relatively small (~41-49 people) with increasing headcount, offering ownership and impact. Recent funding and product launches signal momentum.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but distributed team across 5 countries suggests flexibility, and the technical stack (C++, graphics, ML, sensor simulation) is cutting-edge.

## Sources
1. [paralleldomain.com](https://paralleldomain.com)
2. [jobs.lever.co/paralleldomain](https://jobs.lever.co/paralleldomain)
3. [linkedin.com/company/parallel-domain](https://www.linkedin.com/company/parallel-domain)
4. [getlatka.com/companies/paralleldomain.com](https://getlatka.com/companies/paralleldomain.com)
5. [venturebeat.com](https://venturebeat.com) (2024-06-19: PD Replica launch)
6. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com) (2022-11-16: Series B announcement)
7. [prnewswire.com](https://prnewswire.com) (2023-06-19: Data Lab launch)

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