Full-Time

Staff Technical Program Manager

StackAV

StackAV

201-500 employees

Autonomous trucking systems for safety

No salary listed

Remote in USA + 1 more

More locations: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Hybrid

Category
Engineering Management (1)
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
Agile
Machine Learning
JIRA
Robotics

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Requirements
  • Strong prior hands-on engineering experience in robotics, automotive, aerospace, or technology domains is desired.
  • Experience managing the integration of highly complex, multi-domain technical systems is required.
  • Experience presenting to and interacting with executive leadership in a dynamic environment is required.
  • Familiarity with agile software development lifecycles and waterfall hardware development lifecycles is required.
  • Ability to digest dense, complex technical discussions and accurately extract core conclusions, action items, and trade-offs is required.
  • Experience using standard technical program management tools and practices, including burndown lists, roadmaps, dependency maps, workshops, and Jira, is required.
Responsibilities
  • Manage the execution and communication of major, high-stakes cross-functional programs requiring end-to-end organizational alignment.
  • Develop and maintain technical roadmaps and tactical schedules while balancing near-term delivery milestones with the long-term commercial autonomy vision.
  • Build relationships with cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering teams, advance technical paths, and unify the organization around shared goals.
  • Analyze plans and requirements with engineering leads to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, and safely accelerate development and deployment schedules.
  • Evaluate complex technical and resource trade-offs in constrained environments and frame clear choices and recommendations for leadership.
  • Synthesize detailed technical progress into insights for senior leadership and deliver data-driven arguments during reviews and all-hands.
  • Design and scale engineering processes within programs to reduce friction and improve organizational efficiency.
  • Explore complex technical domains and proactively fill leadership, execution, or process gaps to ensure program success.
Desired Qualifications
  • A proactive willingness to enter unfamiliar areas and learn new technical domains quickly.

StackAV builds autonomous trucking systems to improve safety, reliability, and efficiency in the trucking and logistics industry. It provides hardware and software for self-driving trucks, including sensors, control software, and deployment services, available through direct sales or subscription models. The company stands out by focusing on real-world deployment, applying robotics expertise to integrate autonomous tech with existing supply chains. Its goal is to help fleets move freight safer, faster, and more cost-effectively, delivering goods more quickly.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$1B

Headquarters

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • May 2026 ActExpo unveiling showed tangible product progress beyond stealth.
  • June 2026 safety page and VSSA strengthen regulator trust and hiring appeal.
  • July 2026 Pittsburgh listings show active hiring across autonomy, SRE, and operations.

What critics are saying

  • Salesky still withheld commercialization timing in 2023, signaling no proven revenue path.
  • Stack AV stayed largely silent until 2026, limiting employer visibility and execution credibility.
  • If PACCAR tests stall, SoftBank’s billion-dollar bet faces a capital-draining autonomy dead end.

What makes StackAV unique

  • Bryan Salesky, Pete Rander, and Brett Browning bring Argo AI autonomy pedigree.
  • May 2026 PACCAR-Peterbilt collaboration put Stack AV tech into a 579 truck.
  • Stack AV’s Safety Advisory Council includes NTSB, FMCSA, NHTSA, FBI, and Schneider veterans.

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Green Auto Market
May 19th, 2026
Robotics, AI, and autonomous vehicles showing up in manufacturing and Truck transport, ZETA offers good news on EV charging.

Robotics, AI, and autonomous vehicles showing up in manufacturing and Truck transport, ZETA offers good news on EV charging. Rivian's spinoff company Mind Robotics last week raised another $400 million, just two months after raising $500 million. Led by Kleiner Perkins, it was carried out by the venture arms of Volkswagen, which had partnered with Rivian on a software joint venture, and Salesforce. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, who is also chairman of Mind Robotics, said that he created Mind Robotics because he thought other startups were not fully equipped to automate industrial work. His goal is to build "robotics with human-like skills." Advanced robotics, machine learning, regenerative AI, and autonomous drive technology are being delivered to the auto industry and transportation sector. It's nothing new to automakers like General Motors, the first vehicle manufacturer to bring robotics to its assembly plants with a test in the early 1960s and bringing it up to assembly production levels in the 1980s. It's getting much more developed now for the industry, with automakers now able to significantly streamline assembly, enhance quality control, and reduce production costs. Fleets aren't just conducting limited trial runs anymore - they're enhancing predictive maintenance by using technology such as AI-assisted diagnostics that can route technicians directly to root causes. They're also looking at acquiring autonomous trucks that are coming to market from major OEMs. Autonomous trucks were shown off at ACT Expo 2026 in Las Vegas. Peterbilt teamed up with Stack AV's multi-sensor autonomous driving system and its own autonomous ready vehicle platform, which brings together lidar, radar, and camera inputs with advanced AI-based perception software. Aurora Innovation and Volvo Autonomous Solutions revealed a new 200-mile route between Dallas and Oklahoma City for their autonomous freight network. Daimler Truck North America displayed a Freightliner Cascadia and its Torc autonomous technology. Torc has set up a bank of sensor arrays on the roof of the Cascadia. Kodiak Robotics highlighted its driverless technology at the show, which the company says has autonomous trucks hauling fracking sand. On the production side, Tesla is working hard to bring the Optimus humanoid robot to high volume production, bringing it from something to show off at global auto events to its manufacturing plants. A developed prototype of Optimus Version 3 is planned to be ready this year, after which Tesla intends to build a one million unit production line with a targeted production start that could be by the end of 2026. Tesla for years has been using AI-driven robotics at its Gigafactories to streamline assembly and speed up production. Hyundai Motor Group is using a highly automated, AI-first approach at its Metaplant in Ellabell, Ga. The automaker plans to deploy Boston Dynamics' AI-powered humanoid robots - including the advanced Atlas - to take over physical assembly processes. California robotics company Figure has brought its Figure 01 humanoid to operate in a BMW factory; in August they released Figure 02, which can have natural speech conversations thanks to an OpenAI integration and is being tested by BMW now. Top EV concerns: Deloitte's 2026 Global Automotive Consumer Study found that three of the top five concerns regarding battery-electric vehicles are all related to infrastructure: range anxiety, EV charging speed, and the number of charger locations. What consumers want is access to charging infrastructure that is expansive, reliable, and fast. Zero Emissions Transportation Association (ZETA) says that there's also good news to share. Since 2021, the public EV charging network has more than doubled, reaching nearly 245,000 connectors as of the end of March 2026, according to data from the Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center. Fast charging installation grew by about 30% in 2025 compared to the previous year, totaling around 18,000 connectors - a sign that the private sector's efforts are picking up speed, ZETA says. Clean fuel rebate program: The California Clean Fuel Reward rebate program for electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks is now open for applications. It makes rebates available statewide to help public and private fleets purchase and deploy zero-emission electric trucks. The state expects it to become the largest utility-administered rebate program for electric trucks in the country. The program includes $250 million available this year, with more than $1 billion in total rebate funding expected through 2030. Starting on June 26, authorized retailers will be able to provide the rebates. They'll go from $7,500 to $120,000, and can be applied toward the purchase of new electric medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles.

The Trucker
Dec 20th, 2023
Autonomous truck developer Stack AV forms safety advisory council

A developer of autonomous trucking solutions, Stack AV also published its inaugural Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment (VSSA), which outlines the company's initiatives to hold itself to high safety standards and commitment to be transparent with the general public, regulators, and other stakeholders in its efforts to do so.

Yahoo Finance
Dec 5th, 2023
SoftBank Mobile Arm Buys Irish Telco in Bet on Driverless Cars

SoftBank is also expected to invest an estimated $1 billion into Stack AV, an autonomous trucking startup.

WTWH Media LLC
Nov 2nd, 2023
Robotics Companies Raised $1.8B In September 2023

Listen to this articleRobotics investment for the month of September 2023 totaled $1.84 billion, the result of 50 investments (See Table 1 below or download Table 1 here). Total funding for the months of January 2023 through September 2023 equals approximately $10.7 billion. Funding was $851 million in August 2023 and nearly $2 billion in July 2023. Companies located in the USA, China and Israel received the most rounds and the most funding amounts, dwarfing other countries (Figure 1, below). Companies based in the USA received the majority of the rounds (23), which resulted in a total funding inflow of $537 million. Firms based in China attracted $141 million in funding (coming from 17 investments), while four investments in Israeli companies accounted for $94M in investment

The AV Industry
Oct 17th, 2023
Stack AV Joins AVIA

Washington, D.C. - The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA) announced today that Stack AV, a company committed to developing technologies for autonomous trucks, joins AVIA as its newest member.