Sharlik Shah

Sr Director Technical Program Management at Motional

Milpitas, California

Overview 

Sharlik Shah is currently serving as the Sr Director of Technical Program Management at Motional, showcasing a career trajectory that includes leadership roles at prominent companies like Cruise, Waymo, Google, and Amazon. With a background in Electrical Engineering and a focus on machine learning, AI, and hardware, Shah has demonstrated expertise in technical leadership, productization, and project management in the autonomous vehicle industry. Highlights of Sharlik Shah's career include leading technical program management at Motional and holding principal roles at Cruise, Waymo, and Google, showcasing a strong background in applied research, machine learning algorithms, and high-performance computing.

Work Experience 

  • Sr Director Technical Program Management

    2023 - Current

    Lead Platforms, Systems, Autonomy (AI/ML) TPM teams

Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers.

  • Principal (Director) Technical Program and Product Management

    2021 - 2023

    Lead Program and Product Management for next generation vehicle platform and Systems Engineering teams including AI, ML and entire HW-SW stack

  • Sr Staff Engineering Program and Product Management

    2017 - 2021

    Lead team for Program Management and Product management at Waymo - Program Management Executive Led Program and Product management form multiple vehicle platforms owning end to end execution for hardware (compute, Lidars, Camera and all sensors), Embedded SW (Embedded, Infrastructure, Validation, Systems), AI, ML, Planning and Infrastructure teams

Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters

Raised $11,100,000,000.00 from T. Rowe Price, Perry Creek Capital, Fidelity, Silver Lake, Alphabet, Tiger Global Management and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Staff Engineering Program Management

    2013 - 2016

    Android Auto Embedded - Led Embedded hardware development for Android Auto team - Led and managed Embedded partnerships with OEMs, T1s for Android Auto team Google Glass - Led the hardware program management for Google Glass project (first PM on project) - Led partnership management with CM, suppliers - Led and managed all process development for product life cycle - Created, managed and deployed mutiple processes for Glass engineering management

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Sr Technical Program Manager

    2012 - 2013

    - Led program management for various Mobile, Tablet and Wearable hardware devices as a part of Intel Mobile Computing Group. - Led and Managed build process, test infrastructure and CM relationship for all hardware projects.

An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.

  • Hardware Engineering

    2010 - 2012

    - Fire Phone - Prime Air

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic devices.

  • Hardware Engineering

    2007 - 2010

    Home and Networking division Cable, IP and Satellite Set Top box design

Motorola exists to invent, build and deliver the best mobile devices on the planet, improving the lives of millions of people.

  • Electrical Engineering

    2004 - 2006

    Daimler Chrysler Corporation - Product owner on multiple Electronic modules and sensors on various Dodge, Chrysler and Merc vehicle families.

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