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The Vehicle Program Manager is Waabi's technical face to one OEM partner. They turn company goals into an integrated program plan, align Hardware, Embedded, Onboard, Infra and Autonomy to deliver it, and make sure integration milestones land on schedule. A successful candidate can span the range of executive meetings to in vehicle debugging on the test track. As we scale to more partners, each OEM needs its own dedicated owner, for focus and for partner confidentiality. We are looking for an engineer with breadth across the autonomous capable systems, the ability to go deep, and a curious, startup mindset that speeds up our autonomous vehicle programs.\nYou will...\nOwn the technical integration of the Waabi Driver with an OEM partner, from program setup through driverless operation.\n\nBe part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.\n\nTurn company goals into an integrated program plan with the partner, covering Waabi and OEM deliverables, cross-team dependencies and the critical path.\n\nBalance resources and priorities across Hardware, Embedded, Onboard, Infra and Autonomy, and make trade-off calls when one plan affects another.\n\nAct as Waabi's technical face to the OEM and build trust at every level, from executive reviews to working-level engineering teams.\n\nGo deep when it matters: work with engineers on test vehicles to triage integration issues and 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