Technical Program Manager

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

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager with a strong hardware build background to join our dynamic autonomous trucking startup. In this role, you will coordinate and collaborate with our engineering teams to execute complex hardware projects and manage the program towards manufacturing at scale. Leveraging your significant collaboration skills and experience in a startup environment, you will implement best practices and work with subject matter experts to drive our hardware development from concept to mass production. Additionally, you will manage our external partnerships in trucking, validation, and manufacturing to ensure seamless integration and delivery.

This role requires working onsite five days a week from our Mountain View headquarters.

What you’ll do

• Work with engineers to prioritize technical roadmaps for key hardware features, track work, and deliver functionality.
• Set priorities and coordinate between internal engineering teams and stakeholders to support development from concept through manufacturing.
• Manage the team’s scope, schedule, and dependencies.
• Coordinate release content and efforts with multiple program managers and engineering leads who own individual components.
• Manage external partnerships in trucking, validation, and manufacturing to ensure successful integration and delivery of hardware components.
• Understand the technical implementation plan and manage priorities. Communicate with engineering leadership to direct the effort and resources in an agile manner.
• Coordinate and execute frequent test events involving various levels of hardware, from prototypes to full hardware-in-the-loop demonstrations at test sites.
• Maintain a strong technical understanding of our autonomous vehicle platforms, hardware lifecycle, safety clearance process, and test operations.

What we’re looking for

• BS or MS degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of industry experience with technical subjects and emerging technologies.
• Experience in the automotive industry with bonus points for Hardware projects on autonomous vehicles.
• Experience in a startup environment, managing hardware projects towards manufacturing at scale.
• Expertise in new product introduction and managing hardware development teams.
• Previous experience as a hardware engineer, systems engineer, or similar role.
• Expertise in project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Confluence, and JIRA.
• Proficiency in common workplace software: Word, spreadsheet, presentation software, etc.
• Uncanny resilience to adapt to fluid targets and approach challenges with a ’solutions-first’ and abundance mindset.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, able to handle multiple deadlines, projects, and stakeholders concurrently.
• Strong experience managing external partnerships in trucking, validation, and manufacturing.

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.