Technical Program Manager

Experienced Professional Needed For Display Algorithm Development

Payrate: $75.00 - $80.00/hr. Our team is expanding and we're looking for an experienced professional to drive end-to-end display algorithm development, validation, and execution for our AR/Smart Glasses products. You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing workflows that span algorithm development, software implementation, hardware testing, and prototype validation. This role will support the technical team in scoping, planning, and delivering validation milestones to ensure display compensation algorithms meet image quality requirements on real hardware. You will work with display hardware engineers, software engineers, product managers, system architects, and subsystem team members to strategically manage cross-functional programs from development through dogfooding. We are looking for individuals with a proven track record of delivering complex, multi-workstream technical programs on tight timelines.

Responsibilities

• Validation Roadmap & Milestone Planning: Define and execute end-to-end validation milestones spanning algorithm model development, hardware testing, prototype software validation, production software readiness, and human factors evaluations.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Drive alignment and execution across multiple interdependent workstreamsdisplay hardware, testing, software, and architectureensuring dependencies are tracked and gaps are closed.
• Hardware & Resource Coordination: Proactively manage hardware allocation and device availability to unblock validation timelines.
• Risk Management & Mitigation: Continuously assess program risks and drive mitigation plans. Maintain a living risk register with clear owners, impacts, and resolution paths.
• Stakeholder Communication: Coordinate engineering team to communicate program statusincluding milestone readouts, validation results, risk summaries, and decision requeststo engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders through regular reviews and executive summaries.

Qualifications

• 3 years experience as a technical program manager in hardware/software co-development programs.
• 3 years experience in display technology, image processing, algorithm validation, or related electro-optical systems engineering.
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading complex, multi-workstream execution across hardware, firmware, and software teams with demonstrated ability to anticipate roadblocks and create a path forward.
• Proven ability to manage programs with significant hardware dependencies, including device allocation, prototype build schedules, and test infrastructure coordination.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using data to drive decisions and assess validation readiness.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with experience presenting technical status and risk assessments to senior engineering leadership.
• Experience operating autonomously in ambiguous, fast-paced development environments with evolving requirements and tight launch timelines.

Skills

• Experience with display compensation algorithms and related image quality pipelines.
• Familiarity with display technology testing methodologies.
• Experience managing 0-to-1 consumer device programs from prototype validation through mass production.
• Knowledge of AR/VR/XR display systems, including near-eye display architectures and image quality metrics.

Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $75.00 - $80.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.