Senior Platform Software PM — Cross-Functional & Scale-Ready

Waabi; San Francisco, Pittsburgh (CA, Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Wellness benefits

Unlimited vacation

Flexible hours

Work from home support

Catered meals / daily drinks

Team events and off-site activities

Job summary

Waabi, an AI-driven autonomy company, seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager, Platform Software in the San Francisco area. You will orchestrate cross-functional software integration across hardware platforms, onboard software, embedded systems, and infrastructure, ensuring on-time delivery.

You will own program plans, dependency maps, executive reporting, and risk management, while collaborating with Hardware Platform Managers and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical program management experience across software and hardware platforms.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams with different cadences (hardware, software, embedded).
• Strong written and verbal communication for executive and working-level audiences.
• Experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics and embedded software constraints.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain integrated platform software program plans with milestones.
• Coordinate hardware infrastructure, onboard software, and embedded systems bring-up.
• Capture stakeholder inputs and translate into executable plans before design lock.
• Build dependency maps, risk registries, and owner assignments with ETAs.
• Deliver executive reporting and surface risks with data-driven options.
• Track releases, test campaigns, and milestone alignment across teams.
• Create cross-functional roadmaps with shared sequencing across domains.
• Champion a single source of truth for program work and scalable tracking.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Software integration

Embedded systems understanding

Experience in autonomous vehicles/Robt

Tools

Jira

Asana

Microsoft Project

Job description

Waabi, an AI-driven autonomy company, seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager, Platform Software in the San Francisco area. You will orchestrate cross-functional software integration across hardware platforms, onboard software, embedded systems, and infrastructure, ensuring on-time delivery.

You will own program plans, dependency maps, executive reporting, and risk management, while collaborating with Hardware Platform Managers and engineering teams.