Jobs at Waabi

Waabi is hiring a Managing Counsel, Commercial in San Francisco, California. This senior legal role will lead the company's commercial contracting function, advising on deals that drive the business forward, including hardware supply chain agreements, strategic partnerships, and software licensing.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling at Waabi. This role involves designing, building, and shipping custom internal AI tooling, agents, and workflows to maximize productivity across the company, supporting autonomy codebase, simulation environments, ML training pipelines, and business teams.

Senior/Staff Perception Engineer at Waabi, a leader in Physical AI. This role involves advancing and deploying perception algorithms for self-driving vehicles, focusing on 3D detection, tracking, and semantic understanding. The engineer will prototype, evaluate, and iterate on algorithms, productize solutions, and champion engineering excellence within a multidisciplinary team.

Fleet Specialist at Waabi is an in-truck role focused on monitoring autonomous vehicle systems and collecting high-integrity data during missions. The role also involves in-office support for data ingestion and fleet readiness. The specialist acts as a technical link between the autonomous systems and real-world operations.

Waabi is seeking a Sensors Team Lead to drive the technical direction and strategy for sensor development. This role involves creating roadmaps aligned with the Waabi Driver's evolution and leading the evaluation and testing of new sensor technologies.

This is a mid-level Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) Software/Firmware Engineer role at Waabi in Pittsburgh, PA. The engineer will develop software and firmware for HIL benches, build simulation interfaces, implement automated test frameworks, integrate HIL testing into CI, and develop instrumentation and data acquisition software.

Senior Manager, Canadian Policy and Public Affairs at Waabi. This role involves cultivating relationships with government officials, tracking legislation, building government support programs, representing the company in industry associations, and managing regulatory comment submissions.

Senior/Staff Embedded Software Engineer at Waabi in Toronto, ON. This role involves implementing low-level, safety-critical embedded software for truck control functions, integrating sensors and vehicle actuation feedback, and collaborating with hardware, safety, and systems teams. The engineer will develop reliable code according to industry best practices and support the autonomous platform's operation.

Research Engineer in Neural Rendering at Waabi, focusing on creating next-generation multi-sensor rendering systems for autonomous driving. This role involves building scalable rendering and content creation solutions using techniques like NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting, and contributing to high-impact research papers.

Vehicle Operator (CDL) for Waabi's autonomous truck operations. This role involves manually driving Class 8 commercial vehicles, supervising autonomous vehicles on public roads and test tracks, and providing critical feedback to engineers to improve the autonomous driving system.

Waabi is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer specializing in Safety Methodologies to lead the development and implementation of critical safety frameworks for their autonomous trucking solution. This role involves informing driverless release testing, establishing feedback loops from on-road monitoring, validating safety evaluation pipelines, and creating transparent safety artifacts.

Dispatcher at Waabi responsible for managing autonomous truck operations. This role involves assigning crews and trucks, monitoring mission execution, and acting as the first line of response for operational issues. The dispatcher also manages Fleet Specialists.

Finance Associate for Waabi's FP&A team. This role involves establishing foundational FP&A frameworks, managing the full year budget and forecast, and reporting on financial performance. The associate will also drive continuous system improvement for financial processes.

Systems Engineer, Platform Requirements and Verification at Waabi. This role involves owning the creation, documentation, alignment, and verification of vehicle platform requirements, focusing on sensors, compute, and actuators for autonomous vehicles. The engineer will also define improvements for the simulation environment and track test executions.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Waabi, a leader in Physical AI focused on autonomous transportation. This role involves building reliable and scalable tools for AV development, leading technical discussions, and mentoring other engineers using an AI-first approach.

Research Scientist, World Models at Waabi focuses on developing algorithms and productionizing next-generation World Models for complex, dynamic 4D environments. This role involves large-scale world models for temporal reasoning and generation, including video, multimodal, LLM/VLM/VLA, and predictive models.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, ML-based Controls at Waabi. This role involves designing and developing data-driven and machine-learned approaches for vehicle control problems, applying ML to adapt controllers, and owning problems end-to-end from conceptualization to validation. The engineer will build data pipelines, evaluation metrics, and tooling to compare ML approaches against classical methods.

Waabi is hiring a Fleet Specialist for their night shift in Los Angeles, CA. This role involves preparing autonomous vehicle systems for missions, monitoring vehicle and autonomy system status, and relaying information to the Vehicle Operator. The Fleet Specialist is responsible for ensuring mission data is offloaded and documenting issues for day shift and development teams.

Waabi is hiring a Mission Control Manager in Los Angeles, CA. This senior operations role involves end-to-end ownership of Mission Control operations, including remote assist, fleet and mission management, and dispatch coordination. The manager will build, lead, and coach a team, own key performance indicators, and manage the intervention-to-improvement loop.

Research Intern/Co-op at Waabi in Toronto, ON. This role involves contributing to AI research projects focused on enabling safe self-driving at scale, developing new algorithms for autonomous vehicles in areas like perception and motion planning, and implementing/optimizing novel algorithms. The position encourages external publications and open-source contributions.

Waabi is seeking a Sr IT Systems Administrator for their San Francisco, CA site. This onsite role focuses on providing hands-on technology support, managing endpoint and identity systems, and troubleshooting technical issues to ensure reliable and secure employee technology experiences.

Executive Assistant to the CEO at Waabi, a Physical AI leader. This role involves managing the CEO's complex schedule, travel, and meeting logistics, identifying operational inefficiencies, and proactively resolving issues. The position also contributes to shaping the Office of the CEO's structure and operating practices.

Research Scientist at Waabi focused on inventing new AI technologies for autonomous trucks. The role involves leading AI research projects, developing algorithms for autonomy systems and simulators, and working on diverse self-driving problems like perception and motion forecasting.

Senior/Staff ML Ops Engineer at Waabi, a leader in Physical AI. This role involves building and evolving training infrastructure on Kubernetes, shaping the developer-facing surface, and improving the inner loop for ML development. The engineer will also focus on strengthening the data and artifact layer, creating durable tooling, and building observability across the ML stack.

Waabi is seeking a Senior IT Administrator to support operational expansion, particularly in Texas. This role involves managing network upgrades, compute and storage clusters, and providing on-vehicle technical assistance. The Senior IT Administrator will focus on network stability, security, system deployment automation, and supporting engineering and research teams.

Test Engineer at Waabi responsible for developing and executing test plans on closed course and public roads. This role involves coordinating with engineers, preparing test vehicles, organizing schedules, evaluating vehicle performance, operating actor vehicles, and supporting the test operations team.

Senior Hardware Systems Engineer at Waabi. This role involves decomposing product guidance into use cases and functional requirements, defining architectures and requirements for system-level hardware development, and authoring systems engineering artifacts. The engineer will collaborate with stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams to ensure the successful delivery of quality hardware.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning at Waabi. This role involves designing and developing motion planning software and algorithms for autonomous vehicles, acting as the 'brain' for decision-making in complex traffic scenarios. The engineer will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team using an AI-first approach to build a reliable autonomy stack.

Senior/Staff Electrical Engineer at Waabi, a Physical AI company. This role involves turning custom electronics designs into road-ready hardware, coordinating with contract manufacturers, validating and assembling boards, and performing verification and validation efforts. The engineer will also be responsible for hands-on debugging and repair of electronic components.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer in High-Performance Onboard Algorithms at Waabi. This role involves developing and optimizing real-time signal processing pipelines for autonomous driving, handling massive sensor data with low latency and high reliability. The engineer will design, implement, and optimize efficient algorithms for sensor data acquisition, processing, fusion, and filtering, leveraging parallel computing architectures.

Research Scientist on the Behaviors team at Waabi, focusing on developing cutting-edge simulation agents and scenario generation algorithms for Waabi World. This role involves advancing state-of-the-art models and algorithms in areas like imitation learning and reinforcement learning, and publishing research at top-tier conferences.

Research Engineer in Sensor Signal Processing at Waabi, focusing on developing and implementing signal processing techniques for autonomous driving. The role involves handling massive sensor data from cameras, LiDAR, and radar, optimizing algorithms for parallel architectures, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Shift Supervisor for Waabi's night shift operations in Los Angeles, CA. This role involves managing people and truck operations, ensuring compliance, coaching a team of Vehicle Operators, and overseeing safety and fatigue management.

Staff Systems Engineer, Embedded Safety & Architecture at Waabi. This role focuses on translating vehicle-level safety concepts into embedded architecture and technical safety requirements for electrical engineering and embedded software teams. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring the embedded platform's safety by design and maintaining fluency in automotive standards.

This is a 2026 Intern, PhD Research Scientist role at Waabi. The intern will contribute to AI research projects focused on enabling safe self-driving at scale, developing new algorithms for autonomous vehicles, and implementing/optimizing these algorithms on production systems.

Software Engineer, Commercial Software at Waabi in Toronto, ON. This role involves building the platform that interfaces with autonomous vehicles, managing fleets, and integrating with customer systems. Responsibilities include developing reliable and scalable tools for AV development and creating production-quality software solutions.

Lead Product Manager for Autonomy Capabilities at Waabi. This role focuses on defining and executing the roadmap for the core autonomy stack, bridging AI research with commercial requirements for autonomous trucks and robotaxis. The individual will manage the end-to-end product lifecycle for autonomy features and ensure alignment across various engineering and commercial teams.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, ML Datasets & Data Pipelines at Waabi will design and implement scalable ML data pipelines for training and evaluating autonomous driving models. Responsibilities include optimizing data formats, caching, and dataloading for efficient ML training at scale, and improving data sampling for introspection and edge-case identification.

Bringup Engineer at Waabi in Pittsburgh, PA. This role involves vehicle and component bringup, R&D support, and troubleshooting software and hardware faults across different vehicle platforms. The engineer will also provide technical support for the autonomous vehicle fleet and collaborate with engineering teams to improve performance and testing efficiency.

This is a V&V Engineer, Firmware role at Waabi. The engineer will be responsible for V&V execution and quality assurance, including characterizing vehicles, deriving requirements, and executing functional and performance testing. They will also collaborate cross-functionally and manage regulatory compliance and certification.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Simulation Platform team at Waabi. This role involves contributing to and improving Waabi World, a self-driving simulator, by enhancing its scalability, performance, and the orchestration software between simulation subcomponents. The engineer will collaborate with researchers and internal users to understand requirements and advocate for software development patterns.

Director, OEM & Strategic Partnerships at Waabi, based in San Francisco, California. This role involves developing and executing automotive and partnership strategies, acting as a key interface with OEM partners, and negotiating new deals and existing contracts. The position requires building and managing strong partnerships, structuring agreements, and evaluating partner engagement.

Vehicle Operator (CDL) on the night shift for Waabi in Los Angeles, CA. This role involves manually driving Class 8 commercial vehicles, supervising autonomous vehicles on public roads and test tracks, and providing critical feedback to engineers for improving the autonomous driving system.

Research Engineer at Waabi, a leader in Physical AI, focused on advancing and deploying AI algorithms for self-driving vehicles. Responsibilities include prototyping, evaluating, and iterating on solutions using real-world data and simulations, formulating research-based solutions, and supporting deployment to production systems.

Research Scientist, Neural Reconstruction at Waabi. This role focuses on developing next-generation neural scene-representation and reconstruction algorithms to transform driving data into digital worlds. Responsibilities include fundamental and applied research in areas like 3DGS/NeRF and dynamic scene reconstruction.

Dispatcher for Waabi's night shift in Los Angeles, CA. This role manages daily operations by assigning crews, trucks, and trailers, monitoring real-time mission execution, and acting as the first line of response for issues. The Dispatcher will make independent decisions and manage Fleet Specialists.

The V&V Engineer, Electrical at Waabi is responsible for the execution and quality assurance of electrical verification and validation. This includes characterizing vehicles, deriving electrical requirements, planning and executing functional and performance testing, troubleshooting issues, and managing regulatory compliance and certification.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Localization team at Waabi. This role involves architecting and developing highly precise, robust state estimation systems for autonomous vehicles, fusing data from multiple sensors to provide centimeter-accurate pose estimation. The engineer will design algorithms and mathematical models for real-time localization, working with Rust code on vehicle compute devices.

Director, Fleet Solutions at Waabi is responsible for solidifying expertise in truck purchasing and selling, owning customer value cases by building value propositions grounded in customer data, and speaking to Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) at a line-item level. The role involves comprehending customer supply chains, supporting customer hosting, shaping commercial constructs for pilots, and building with AI tooling.

Platform Systems Engineer specializing in Sensing and Perception, Maps and Localization at Waabi. This role involves leading the systems engineering lifecycle, architecting requirements for autonomous vehicles, and acting as a technical liaison between cross-functional teams. The engineer will validate requirements using data and contribute to the system safety case.

Senior Software Engineer, Auto Labelling at Waabi, a leader in Physical AI. This role involves building and managing an offline perception and auto-labelling system using computer vision and machine learning, architecting scalable pipelines for large-scale data, and deploying new ML architectures into production.

Applied Scientist role at Waabi focused on analyzing autonomous driving system performance. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain dashboards for monitoring system performance across simulation, track, and public road testing. The scientist will also partner with Data Platform and Evaluation teams to improve eval tooling and pipelines.

This is a Senior/Staff ML Training Optimization Engineer role at Waabi. The engineer will build standardized distributed training frameworks, profile model runtime and memory for performance bottlenecks, and evaluate emerging technologies for training and inference. They will also work with researchers on best practices for resource usage and create tooling and dashboards.

Research Engineer on the World Models team at Waabi, focusing on developing algorithms and productionizing next-generation World Models for temporal reasoning and generation in 4D environments. This role involves working with video models, multimodal generative models, LLM/VLM/VLA models, and predictive models to enhance Waabi World's simulation capabilities.

Vehicle Reliability Engineer at Waabi, based in Los Angeles, CA. This role involves identifying and diagnosing hardware and software issues during vehicle testing and operations, implementing temporary fixes, and documenting all problems. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams for root cause analysis and recommend improvements to enhance vehicle reliability.

This role is for a Test & Evaluation Operator at Waabi, a Physical AI company. The operator will drive Class 8 autonomous and manual vehicles, execute testing protocols, produce written evaluations for engineering, and train other operators.

Senior/Staff ML Onboard Optimization Engineer at Waabi. This role involves collaborating with autonomy engineers to scale self-driving systems, expanding the model deployment pipeline to new hardware, and optimizing models using frameworks like TensorRT. Responsibilities include creating CUDA kernels for inference and profiling model runtime and memory.

Mechanical Build & Integration Technician at Waabi in Pittsburgh, PA. This hands-on role involves assembling and integrating sensor, compute, and actuation hardware onto autonomous truck platforms, following documented procedures and collaborating with engineering teams to ensure quality and safety.

Waabi is seeking a Test Engineer in Phoenix, AZ. This role involves developing and executing test plans on closed course test tracks and public roads, coordinating with engineers, preparing test vehicles, and evaluating vehicle performance. The engineer will also operate actor vehicles and support the test operations team.

Waabi is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for their Onboard Sensors Team in San Francisco. This role involves integrating, fielding, and productionizing sensor systems for autonomous vehicles, including LIDAR, RADAR, and cameras. The engineer will deploy and debug software on live vehicles and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Physical Infrastructure Engineer at Waabi, based in Los Angeles, CA. This role involves building and supporting on-premise computer and network systems for autonomous vehicles, collaborating with hardware and software teams on vehicle compute, network implementation, OS delivery, and data pipelines.

Senior/Staff Research Engineer at Waabi, focusing on Simulation Assets & Content Systems. This role involves architecting and owning asset pipelines from raw sensor logs to simulation-ready representations, and designing schemas, formats, and storage for a heterogeneous asset library.

This is a Senior Test & Evaluation Operator role at Waabi, focusing on operating Class 8 autonomous and manual vehicles. The role involves in-seat execution of platform verification and validation, producing written evaluations for engineering, and executing vehicle dynamics campaigns.

The Autonomous Semi Technician - Night Shift at Waabi is responsible for the inspection, maintenance, and repair of the company's Class 8 autonomous trucking fleet. This role involves diagnosing and troubleshooting mechanical and electrical issues, performing component replacements, and maintaining accurate records of all maintenance activities.

Waabi is hiring a Day Shift Supervisor in Los Angeles, CA. This role involves managing people and truck operations, ensuring compliance and safety for autonomous vehicle missions, and coaching a team of Vehicle Operators and Fleet Specialists.

Platform Systems Engineer focused on Motion Planning and Control at Waabi. This role involves creating Autonomous Vehicle (AV) requirements using analytical and numerical methods, with a focus on motion planning, motion control, and Vehicle Dynamics (VD). The engineer will own the definition and requirements development for motion planning, motion control, and low-level vehicle control contracts.

Waabi is seeking a Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) Team Lead in Pittsburgh, PA. This role involves owning the strategy, architecture, roadmap, and execution of the HIL program, defining and delivering a tiered HIL architecture, and verifying critical requirements from full-vehicle testing onto HIL benches.

Electrical Engineering Team Lead at Waabi responsible for guiding a team designing custom electronics for autonomous trucks. This role involves owning the bridge between hardware and software, ensuring designs are manufacturable at scale and meet OEM standards. The lead will manage contract manufacturers and serve as the technical interface with OEM partners.

This is a mid-level Autonomous Semi Technician role on the swing shift at Waabi. The technician will be responsible for inspecting, maintaining, diagnosing, and repairing Waabi's Class 8 autonomous trucking fleet, ensuring optimal performance and safety.

Senior/Staff Manufacturing Engineer (NPI) at Waabi in Pittsburgh, PA. This role drives APQP program management at CM/Tier 1 sites, focusing on Design for Manufacturing (DFM) & Assembly (DFA), and validating component-level PPAPs. Responsibilities include mechanical assembly, test, integration of systems, and leading the development of Process PPAP deliverables.

Software Engineer, Labelling, Data & Automation at Waabi builds pipelines, tools, and workflows to accelerate the development of AI-first self-driving technology. This role involves designing and implementing systems for data extraction, labelling, and integration, focusing on scalability and reliability.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Mapping at Waabi. This role involves building and architecting foundational spatial intelligence for autonomous vehicles. Responsibilities include developing scalable, AI-driven mapping infrastructure, working on backend pipelines, API design, and vehicle-side serving.

Staff Planner SW Quality Architect at Waabi, focusing on the software quality of the Planner Architecture. This role involves building robust fault-tolerance systems, acting as a technical bridge between Motion Planning and Onboard SW Teams, and designing motion planning software and algorithms.

Senior Software Engineer, Evaluation Infrastructure at Waabi. This role involves developing tooling, infrastructure, and pipelines for complex statistical analyses of driving performance. The engineer will implement metrics and tags for model performance and develop a high-availability query service for low-latency analysis of large datasets.