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Staff Vehicle Program Manager

Waabi· Hardware – Mechanical Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA / Pittsburgh, PA / Toronto, ON / Remote US & Canada)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Waabi seeks a Staff Vehicle Program Manager to own the technical integration of the Waabi Driver with OEM partners, aligning hardware, embedded, onboard, infra and autonomy to deliver driverless operation milestones. The role blends program management with technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams, from executive discussions to hands-on vehicle debugging.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical integration of the Waabi Driver with an OEM partner, from program setup through driverless operation.
  • Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
  • Turn company goals into an integrated program plan with the partner, covering Waabi and OEM deliverables, cross-team dependencies and the critical path.
  • Balance resources and priorities across Hardware, Embedded, Onboard, Infra and Autonomy, and make trade-off calls when one plan affects another.
  • Act as Waabi's technical face to the OEM and build trust at every level, from executive reviews to working-level engineering teams.
  • Go deep when it matters: work with engineers on test vehicles to triage integration issues and drive them to a decision.
  • Spot risk before it reaches the schedule, bring options with a recommendation, and escalate early and clearly.
  • Hold Waabi's technical standards with the partner, adapting to how each OEM works and pushing back credibly when needed.
  • Develop and maintain program reporting for Waabi leadership and partner executive forums

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of engineering experience in vehicle development, autonomous vehicles, ADAS or robotics, including 3+ years leading technical integration programs.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer or Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Breadth across actuation and autonomy system integration (sensors, compute, embedded, and software) and the judgment to weigh trade-offs between them.
  • Ability to rapidly go deep on a technical issue with engineers, work it to a decision, and return to the program view.
  • Solid problem solving using dependency mapping, critical-path analysis and risk management, with clear options for leadership.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, equally effective in an OEM executive review and a test-vehicle debug session.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a startup pace: filters signal from noise and adds structure without adding overhead.
  • Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others.
  • Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.

Skills

Required:Engineering leadershipTechnical integration

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).
  • Unlimited Vacation.
  • Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
  • Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
  • Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Waabi

pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks.

Waabi is pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks. We developed a next-generation approach leveraging an end-to-end interpretable and verifiable AI model that’s powered by the industry's most realistic neural simulator. This dramatically reduces the development time and resources needed to bring self-driving vehicles to public roads — safely and at scale.

Autonomous trucksPhysical AIneural simulatorAI modelself-driving vehicles
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