Waabi, founded by AI pioneer and visionary Raquel Urtasun, is an AI company building the next generation of self-driving technology. With a world class team and an innovative approach that unleashes …
📋 Job Overview
Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.
🏢 About Waabi
With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai
🎯 The Role
The Senior Technical Program Manager, Platform Software owns program-level execution for software across Waabi's hardware platforms, with a focus on cross-functional integration between physical infrastructure, onboard software, embedded systems, hardware platform and systems engineering teams. You are the connective tissue between teams that operate on fundamentally different cadences: embedded software with kanban-based delivery, onboard software releases, and hardware build and bring-up.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Define and maintain integrated platform software program plans covering key milestones, cross-team dependencies, and ensure on-time delivery.
Partner with Hardware Platform Managers to coordinate physical infrastructure, onboard software, and embedded systems work needed to bring up different platforms.
Ensure all stakeholder inputs are captured and integrated into program plans before design commitments lock in.
Build and enforce dependency maps across Physical Infrastructure, Onboard Software, Embedded Systems, Hardware and Operations, identify the critical path, and ensure every dependency has an owner and an ETA.
Own reporting into executive forums. Surface risks early with data-backed Path to Green options.
Track platform software releases, bring-up and test campaigns, ensuring test coverage, sign-off readiness, and milestone alignment across teams.
Build cross-functional roadmaps that give physical infrastructure, onboard software, and embedded systems a shared line of sight on interdependencies and sequencing.
Champion tools to capture the single source of truth for program work, ensuring consistency across programs.
Build scalable tracking mechanisms and systematic processes that work at fleet scale.
📌 Required Qualifications
Technical breadth. Ask the right questions, spot unrealistic assumptions in a plan, and know when a dependency is a real blocker versus a process gap. You can engage with engineers across physical infrastructure, onboard software, hardware, vehicle reliability, systems engineering and embedded systems without needing to be a domain expert in any one area.
Self-starter who builds processes from scratch. Build processes and iterate based on what actually works and impose structure without creating overhead.
Cross-functional influencer. Work on highly cross functional programs spanning physical infrastructure, onboard software, embedded systems, and hardware.
