May Mobility · 1 month ago
Senior Manager, Autonomy Technical Release
Ann Arbor, MI
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$198K/yr - $285K/yr
5+ years expMay Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. The Manager, Autonomy Technical Release will lead the growth, development, and release strategy for May Mobility's autonomy on-vehicle stack, ensuring safe, reliable, and quality software deployment across the fleet.
AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesPublic TransportationSoftwareTravel
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans. Domestic partners who have been residing together at least one year are also eligible to participate.
Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts available.
Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
Generous paid parental leave as well as a phased return to work.
Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.
Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing
Company
May Mobility
May Mobility is a manufacturing firm that designs and develops autonomous technology vehicles for self-driving transportation solutions.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$309.58MKey Investors
GrabITOCHU CorporationNTT Group
2025-10-23Corporate Round
2025-05-29Corporate Round· $6.96M
2023-11-07Series D· $105M
Leadership Team
Edwin Olson
CEO
Daisy Wall
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