Platform Software Program Lead - Cross-Functional Delivery

Waabi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Waabi seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager, Platform Software, to own program-level execution across Waabi's hardware platforms. You will synchronize cross-functional teams spanning physical infrastructure, onboard software, and embedded systems to meet critical milestones and ensure timely platform software readiness for trucks and autonomy projects.

You will shape dependency maps, risk registries, and executive reporting, while driving scalable processes and a single source of truth for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical program management experience, with a strong focus on cross-functional software integration programs for hardware platforms.
• Experience across teams with meaningfully different development cadences (robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, IoT, or defense systems).

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Risk-first mindset. Surface problems early, ...
• Comfort with ambiguity. Thrive in bringing clarity and structure to ambiguity and convert ambitious goals into programs with hard success criteria, DRIs, and trackable milestones.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Software integration

Jira

Asana

Microsoft Project

Executive reporting

Written communication

Tools

Jira

Asana

Microsoft Project

Job description

Waabi seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager, Platform Software, to own program-level execution across Waabi's hardware platforms. You will synchronize cross-functional teams spanning physical infrastructure, onboard software, and embedded systems to meet critical milestones and ensure timely platform software readiness for trucks and autonomy projects.

You will shape dependency maps, risk registries, and executive reporting, while driving scalable processes and a single source of truth for