Technical Program Manager III, Security and Firmware, Platforms and Devices

Technical Program Manager III, Security and Firmware, Platforms and DevicesMid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle.

This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers. Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.Fuchsia is Google's open-source, capability-based operating system, built on the Zircon microkernel and shipping on Google Nest devices.

Our Security, Privacy, and Firmware program makes sure every product built on Fuchsia boots and updates reliably, is secure by design, and respects user privacy. The work spans the bootloader and verified boot, trusted execution environments, OS hardening, vulnerability response, and privacy reviews for every platform release. We partner with Android, product teams, Legal, and silicon vendors, and much of the platform is developed in the open at fuchsia.dev.Responsibilities:Define the multi-quarter roadmap for operating system security, privacy, and firmware, translating ambiguous requirements into structured programs with clear milestones, risk ratings, and exit criteria.Manage programs for the platform's boot and update stack including verified boot, over-the-air updates, and recovery while aligning release milestones and firmware readiness with external silicon vendors.Direct security and privacy launch approval processes for platform releases and new hardware form factors by coordinating privacy design reviews, audits, and legal alignment to ensure secure, on-time delivery.Guide vulnerability management and incident response initiatives from the OS level down to vendor firmware, tracking findings against severity-based SLOs and upstreaming patches to reduce measurable risk.Cultivate strategic cross-organizational partnerships to deliver platform capabilities like hardware-backed key management, while building scalable tooling (including AI-assisted workflows) and streamlining review processes to improve organizational efficiency.Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.