Training Lead, Safety & Operations

Gatik AI; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Gatik AI in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Head of Training to build and mature the technical training infrastructure across all sites. You will ensure testing, field deployment, and engineering support teams operate with safety, competence, and efficiency.

The role is onsite five days a week at our Santa Clara office. You will develop curricula, translate SOPs into training materials, supervise standard procedures, and maintain audit-ready records across facilities.

Qualifications

• Autonomous systems training or safety program leadership experience.
• Knowledge of trucking operations and safety protocols.
• Experience scaling training across multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Program development and maturity of curricula for testing and deployment.
• Translate complex engineering material into clear training content and execute programs.
• Ensure rigorous SOPs are embedded in daily workflows and training metrics are auditable.
• Maintain traceability and audit-readiness across facilities.
• Oversee quality delivery and evaluate field trainer performance.
• Develop real-time competency tracking and ongoing learning modules.
• Design retraining workflows for skill gaps and recertifications.

Skills

Autonomous Systems Experience

Commercial Trucking Awareness

Multi-Site Leadership

Administrative Rigor

Willingness to Travel

Job description

Who we are

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, is revolutionizing the B2B supply chain with its autonomous transportation-as-a-service (ATaaS) solution and prioritizing safe, consistent deliveries while streamlining freight movement by reducing congestion. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world’s first fully driverless commercial transportation service with Walmart. Gatik’s Class 3-7 autonomous trucks are commercially deployed across major markets, including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada, driving innovation in freight transportation.

The company’s proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology, Gatik Carrier™, is custom-built to transport freight safely and efficiently between pick-up and drop-off locations on the middle mile. With robust capabilities in both highway and urban environments, Gatik Carrier™ serves as an all-encompassing solution that integrates advanced software and hardware powering the fleet, facilitating effortless integration into customers’ logistics operations.

About the role

The Head of Training establishes, matures, and leads the technical training infrastructure across all operational sites. This role ensures that testing, field deployment, and engineering support teams operate at the highest standards of safety, technical competence, and operational efficiency.

This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Santa Clara, CA office!

What you’ll do

• Program Development & Maturity: Build, refine, and standardize training curricula for testing, deployment, and engineering support personnel, aligning content directly with safety benchmarks and operational milestones.
• Technical Translation & End-to-End Execution: Take complex technical engineering material and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), translate them into clear, accessible training materials, and execute the resulting training programs end-to-end.
• Critical Procedures & Processes: Take responsibility for ensuring the organization is thoroughly trained on all critical procedures and processes, embedding standard operating procedures (SOPs) deeply into daily workflows to maintain strict safety and operational integrity.
• Administrative Compliance & Traceability: Implement rigorous record-keeping frameworks to monitor, document, and audit all training metrics, ensuring total traceability and audit-readiness across the organization.
• Quality Assurance & Delivery Oversight: Audit and evaluate field trainers to ensure faithful, standardized execution of training content and rigorous testing methodologies across all facilities.
• Continuous Elevation & Real-Time Monitoring: Establish dynamic competency matrices to track team capabilities in real-time, delivering ongoing learning modules to continuously elevate technical skills alongside hardware/software updates.
• Retraining & Recertification: Develop, maintain, and execute structured retraining workflows to address skill gaps, post-incident remediation, and routine safety recertifications.

What we’re looking for

• Autonomous Systems Experience: Demonstrated track record leading technical training or operational safety programs within the autonomous vehicle (AV), deployed robotics, or safety-critical technology sectors.
• Commercial Trucking Awareness: Strong technical familiarity or direct experience with autonomous commercial trucking operations, including operational logistics and related safety protocols, is highly preferred.
• Multi-Site Leadership: Proven ability to scale training operations, manage remote trainers, and standardize processes across geographically distributed operational hubs.
• Administrative Rigor: Experience utilizing Enterprise Learning Management Systems (LMS) and capability tracking platforms with strict data integrity requirements.
• Willingness to Travel: Ability to travel frequently to all operational, testing, and deployment locations.

Salary Range - $180,000- $260,000

More about Gatik

Founded in 2017 by experts in autonomous vehicle technology, Gatik has rapidly expanded its presence to Mountain View, Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas, and Toronto. As the first and only company to achieve fully driverless middle-mile commercial deliveries, Gatik holds a unique and defensible position in the AV industry, with a clear trajectory toward sustainable growth and profitability.

We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy. By choosing the middle mile – with defined point-to-point delivery, we have simplified some of the more complex AV challenges, enabling us to achieve full autonomy ahead of competitors. Given extensive knowledge of Gatik’s well-defined, fixed route ODDs and hybrid architecture, we are able to hyper-optimize our models with exponentially less data, establish gate-keeping mechanisms to maintain explainability, and ensure continued safety of the system for unmanned operations.

Visit us at Gatik for more company information and Careers at Gatik for more open roles.

Notable News

• Forbes: Forget robotaxis. Upstart Gatik sees middle-mile deliveries as the path to profitable AVs
• Tech Brew: Gatik AI exec unpacks the regulations that could shape the AV industry
• Business Wire: Gatik Paves the Way for Safe Driverless Operations (‘Freight-Only’) at Scale with Industry-First Third-Party Safety Assessment Framework
• Auto Futures: Autonomous Trucking Group Gatik Secures Investment From NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS
• Automotive News: Gatik foresees hundreds of self-driving trucks on road soon, and that’s just the beginning
• Forbes: Isuzu And Gatik Go All In To Scale Up Driverless Freight Services
• Bloomberg: Autonomous Vehicle Startup Takes Off by Picking Off Easier Routes
• Reuters: Driverless vehicles on limited routes bump along despite US robotaxi scrutiny

Taking care of our team

At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment’s sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.

We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.