Release Coordinator

Hybrid role - 3 days Onsite and 2 days Remote

Job Description:

• Onsite in Foster City, CA | at least 3 days in office.
• Autonomous vehicles have some of the largest, most complex software ever shipped in a safety-critical environment.
• Solving that problem is one of the most exciting technical challenges of our lifetime.
• As part of the Release Management team at client, you will own all aspects of the software release process and help accelerate our product development by leading various weekly / fortnightly / monthly releases focused on ensuring we are shipping the safest and most reliable software possible. 
• As developers build new features, the release management team will be responsible for tracking and knowing the content of each release, updating testing strategies, measuring system performance, and escalating issues seen during on-vehicle and offline testing.
• These efforts are critical to maintaining our code quality and ensuring our service capabilities are operating as intended.
• You will coordinate with cross-divisional teams to accelerate releases, increase the quality of our autonomous driving products, and optimize resource efficiency.
• Your ability to understand the overall system design and component interaction to help guide test methodology for functional and safety sign-off is crucial to the overall success of the release team.
• Accountability and integrity are core to client teams. 

In this role, you will:

• Work with all stakeholders in Development, QA, and vehicle operations to assemble cross-organizational project teams, tracking progress and delivering towards release milestones.
• Track results of all required tests, analyze release blockers, and enable successful resolution.
• Continuously evaluate the efficiency of existing processes and procedures of change and release management and improve practices.
• Automation of existing manual release processes.
• Change management, scoping, conduct release reviews, communicate status to all stakeholders, escalation as per the SLAs.

Qualifications:

• 0-2 years of experience working with large, complex products.
• Understanding of software version control systems, extensive knowledge of git and command line.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and organizational skills.
• Experience in defining release readiness criteria, ensuring all changes meet criteria prior to deployment.
• You had a manual & boring process and you automated it using Python or any other programming language & using AI tools.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with CI build systems and ability to triage failures.
• Experience working on large process improvement and/or automation projects and programs.
• Broad understanding of programming structure (makefiles, headers, code) and compilation process (compile, link) experience with multi-platform (Unix, Windows, etc.) build environments.
• Fluency in any programming language and using AI tools like cursor, claude, co-pilot, chatGPT, etc.

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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