Senior / Staff Technical Program Manager, Platform Software

present of AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Waabi is seeking a Senior/Staff Technical Program Manager for Platform Software in San Francisco. You will coordinate engineering teams building shared infrastructure, tools, and services, while maintaining schedules, dependencies, and risk visibility across groups.

The role emphasizes AI-driven simulation and data pipelines as part of autonomous system work. You will shape program management in an environment that blends traditional engineering rigor with machine learning and simulation.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating engineering teams building shared infrastructure, tools and services.
• Strong written and verbal communication for risk reporting and tradeoffs.
• Exposure to machine learning or robotics projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate engineering teams building platform software, infrastructure and services.
• Keep schedules, dependencies, and risks visible across groups.
• Guide program decisions under uncertainty in simulated autonomous systems.

Skills

Cross-team coordination

Technical risk communication

Simulation/ML exposure

Job description

Senior / Staff Technical Program Manager, Platform Software

Engineering · San Francisco, CA · Full-time · Senior level

A senior program manager for platform software usually coordinates engineering teams building shared infrastructure, tools and services, keeping schedules, dependencies and risks visible across groups. A strong candidate brings a record of shipping complex software programs, comfort with technical tradeoffs, and clear written and verbal communication. At a company training self driving systems largely in simulation, that means keeping the platform that runs those simulations and data pipelines moving on time.

How it fits the AI era

Platform program work is increasingly shaped by AI tooling for planning, testing and code review, which speeds up some coordination and shifts attention to judgment calls. The human core stays the same: aligning people, resolving conflicting priorities and making sound calls under uncertainty. In simulation heavy autonomy work, the program manager helps teams trust and act on AI generated results.

How it builds AI experience

This role offers hands on exposure to AI driven simulation and the data infrastructure behind it, a useful grounding in how autonomous systems are trained and validated. Building that experience means learning how simulation pipelines and evaluation metrics work and practicing program management on machine learning or robotics projects. Curiosity about how AI outputs are checked and trusted goes a long way.

Worth showing

• Cross team dependency management
• Technical risk communication
• Simulation or ML exposure

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About Waabi

A Toronto company training self-driving trucks and robotaxis mostly inside its own AI-generated simulator, rather than by racking up millions of real road miles.