TPM, Multimedia and Platform (BSP)

The posting, as ALTEN Technology USA wrote it

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Workplace: On-site, Monday-Thursday. REMOTE on Friday.
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Salary: $140,000-155,000

We are hiring a Technical Program Manager to own the multimedia and platform software scope for upcoming infotainment programs. The role covers two closely coupled areas: the multimedia stack the customer experiences directly, spanning audio, video, media playback, tuner and streaming sources, and the board support package underneath it, spanning SoC bring-up, kernel and driver delivery, hardware abstraction layers, power management and platform integration.
The work is coordination-heavy and technically deep. You will lead software teams to deliver on key milestones and software releases per vehicle program timing, working across our internal platform and application teams, the Tier 1 supplier and the silicon vendor. Multimedia features cannot land before the platform underneath them is stable, and the core of this job is keeping those two schedules honest with each other and escalating early when they are not.

Responsibilities
Multimedia

• Create program timing plans for multimedia features across audio, video, media playback, tuner and streaming sources, based on available resources and required features for the software teams
• Work with cross-functional teams inside IVI and across the organization to evaluate, develop and clarify requirements, then decompose them into consumable work tasks for developers and testers
• Drive cross-functional execution between multimedia software, audio, HMI, integration and validation teams
• Prioritize and drive software defects to closure to meet software release timing, leading bug triage where next steps on open issues are identified and assigned
• Evaluate incoming feature requests and identify future resource needs against program capacity
• Maintain the dependency map between multimedia features and the platform and middleware capabilities they rely on

Platform and board support package

• Own the BSP delivery schedule with the silicon vendor and Tier 1, covering SoC bring-up, kernel, device drivers, hardware abstraction layers, power management and board revisions

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ep and wake states and low-voltage power distribution behavior

• Knowledge of automotive communication protocols and services: CAN, CAN FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP, UDS and DoIP
• Experience with software containers, remote software deployment and OTA delivery into production vehicles
• Familiarity with secure boot, secure key management and cybersecurity requirements as they touch platform releases
• Vehicle program cadence experience: bench and vehicle build phases, software release trains, and launch readiness gates
• Tooling: Jira, Confluence, Jama for requirements tracking, Git-based workflows, and program reporting or dashboard tools
• Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262 or equivalent process exposure

Salary Range

• $140,000 - 155,000
• The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

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