Training Lead, Safety & Operations
Gatik AI, Inc.
CA$180,000 - CA$260,000 / year
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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.
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About this role
# About This Role
Gatik is seeking a Training Lead to build and oversee the technical training infrastructure across its autonomous trucking operations. You'll develop standardized curricula for field deployment, testing, and engineering teams, then translate complex technical material and SOPs into clear training programs. The role demands hands-on execution: auditing trainers for consistency, maintaining rigorous documentation and compliance records, managing retraining and recertification workflows, and using learning management systems to track competency in real time. This is a full-time, onsite position in Santa Clara requiring five days per week on-site and frequent travel to operational sites.
The ideal candidate has led technical training or operational safety programs in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical technology, with direct experience in autonomous commercial trucking operations strongly preferred. You'll need proven ability to scale training across multiple geographically distributed sites, manage remote trainers, and implement enterprise-level administrative systems with strict data integrity. This role suits someone comfortable embedding safety protocols into daily workflows and continuously elevating team capabilities as hardware and software evolve.
The salary range is $180,000 to $260,000.
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