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Description

Hybrid: Redmond, WA

Must-Have Skills

• 3+ yrs as a TPM in HW and SW co-development programs
• 3+ yrs in display tech, image processing, algorithm validation, or electro-optical systems
• Effective executive communication +XFN experience; comfort with ambiguity  and tight timelines

Nice-to-have Skills

• Client/Big Tech Experience
• 0-to-1 consumer device programs (prototype → mass production)
• AR/VR/XR near-eye display architectures

Job Description

• Our team is expanding and we're looking for an experienced TPM to drive end-to-end display algorithm development, validation, and execution for our AR/Smart Glasses products. As a Display Algorithms TPM, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing workflows that span algorithm development, software implementation, hardware testing, and prototype validation.
• This TPM will support the technical team in scoping, planning, and delivering validation milestones to ensure display compensation algorithms meet image quality requirements on real hardware.
• They will work with display hardware engineers, software engineers, product managers, system architects, and subsystem TPMs to strategically manage cross-functional programs from development through dogfooding.
• We are looking for TPMs with a proven track record of delivering complex, multi-workstream technical programs on tight timelines.
• This role will have the opportunity to work closely with world-class display, optics, and SW development teams across Client to ship delightful visual experiences in Client's AR/Smart Glasses products.

Responsibilities

• Validation Roadmap & Milestone Planning: Define and execute end-to-end validation milestones spanning algorithm model development, hardware testing, prototype SW validation, production SW readiness, and human factors evaluations
• Cross-Functional Execution: Drive alignment and execution across multiple interdependent
• Work streams—display hardware, testing, software, and architecture—ensuring 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 status—including milestone readouts, validation results, risk summaries, and decision requests—to engineering leadership and XFN stakeholders through regular reviews and executive summaries

Minimum Qualifications

• Prior experience with Client can be considered to supplement an applicant's prior years of experience or types of prior experience to meet the minimum qualifications of the position.
• 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.