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Salary: USD 180,000 - 260,000 / annual
Gatik AI, a leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, is seeking a Head of Training to establish, mature, and lead 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.
You will be responsible for building, refining, and standardizing training curricula for testing, deployment, and engineering support personnel, aligning content directly with safety benchmarks and operational milestones. You will translate complex technical engineering material and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) into clear, accessible training materials and execute the resulting training programs end-to-end.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and executing comprehensive training programs across all operational sites
- Taking responsibility for ensuring the organization is thoroughly trained on all critical procedures and processes, embedding SOPs deeply into daily workflows to maintain strict safety and operational integrity
- Implementing rigorous record-keeping frameworks to monitor, document, and audit all training metrics, ensuring total traceability and audit-readiness
- Auditing and evaluating field trainers to ensure faithful, standardized execution of training content and rigorous testing methodologies across all facilities
- Establishing dynamic competency matrices to track team capabilities in real-time, delivering ongoing learning modules to continuously elevate technical skills alongside hardware/software updates
- Developing, maintaining, and executing structured retraining workflows to address skill gaps, post-incident remediation, and routine safety recertifications
This is a full-time, in-office position requiring 5 days per week at the Santa Clara, CA headquarters, with frequent travel to all operational, testing, and deployment locations.
Requirements:
- Demonstrated track record leading technical training or operational safety programs within the autonomous vehicle (AV), deployed robotics, or safety-critical technology sectors
- Strong technical familiarity or direct experience with autonomous commercial trucking operations, including operational logistics and related safety protocols (highly preferred)
- Proven ability to scale training operations, manage remote trainers, and standardize processes across geographically distributed operational hubs
- Experience utilizing Enterprise Learning Management Systems (LMS) and capability tracking platforms with strict data integrity requirements
- Willingness to travel frequently to all operational, testing, and deployment locations
