Technical Program Manager

Payrate: $75.00 - $80.00/hr.Summary: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 Reality Labs to ship delightful visual experiences in Company'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 workstreams—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 Company 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.
• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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 /hr. 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.  Consent to Communication and Use of AI Technology: By submitting your application for this position and providing your email address(es) and/or phone number(s), you consent to receive text (SMS), email, and/or voice communication whether automated (including auto telephone dialing systems or automatic text messaging systems), pre-recorded, AI-assisted, or individually initiated from Aditi Consulting, our agents, representatives, or affiliates at the phone number and/or email address you have provided. These communications may include information about potential opportunities and information. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency may vary. You represent and warrant that the email address(es) and/or telephone number(s) you provided to us belong to you and that you are permitted to receive calls, text (SMS) messages, and/or emails at these contacts. You also acknowledge and agree to Aditi Consulting LLC’s use of AI technology during the sourcing process, including calls from an AI Voice Recruiter. AI is used solely to gather data and does not replace human-based decision-making in employment decisions. Calls may be recorded. Consent is not a condition of purchasing any property, goods, or services. You may revoke your consent at any time by replying “STOP” to :messages or by contacting

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