Waabi
Senior / Lead Technical Program Manager, Platform Software
$150K–$230K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Toronto, ON
Pittsburgh, PA
Remote US & Canada - Experience
- 5+ years of technical program management experience.
About the job
Owns cross-functional program execution to integrate platform software with hardware and bring up Waabi truck platforms on schedule.
What you'll do
- Maintain integrated program plans, dependencies, critical paths, and milestones across platform software and hardware teams.
- Coordinate platform bring-up, software releases, test campaigns, and sign-off readiness with Hardware Platform Managers and other teams.
- Report program status and risks to executives, provide recovery options, and establish scalable tracking processes.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of technical program management experience focused on cross-functional software integration programs for hardware platforms.
- Experience working across teams with different development cadences, such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, or defense systems.
- Deep understanding of software development lifecycles and ability to build cross-functional program structures from scratch.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics; familiarity with embedded systems and software development.
- Experience with onboard compute bring-up, physical infrastructure, hardware-in-the-loop testing, hardware development, safety processes, ASPICE, or field-issue triage.
Pay
$150,000 - $230,000 USD base salary
Tools
Jira, Asana, Microsoft Project, ASPICE
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