Waabi

Manager

• Cultivate and maintain relationships across Congressional offices and committees, and federal Agencies (with a focus on USDOT, NHTSA and FMCSA).
• Execute on Waabi’s key legislative and regulatory goals and build awareness and understanding of Waabi’s technology and business.
• Monitor and lead engagement with Congress on all major legislative initiatives impacting Waabi. Ensure Waabi's priorities are integrated into any relevant federal legislation including via direct lobbying.
• Monitor key federal rulemakings, and lead the internal drafting of all relevant regulatory submissions.
• Represent Waabi in-person at all major DC-based events (including industry events, Congressional hearings and markups, regulator forums, etc).
• Serve as the point of contact for all federal policy matters, reporting key developments and strategic recommendations to the Head of Policy.

Senior Manager, Federal Policy and Public Affairs

Full-stack Engineer

• Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable creating high definition maps at scale.
• Build the engineering foundations of our long-term mapping infrastructure.
• Build scalable pipelines to create, validate, maintain and visualize HD map data.
• Design and develop metrics and monitoring across the various map systems.
• Partner with map customers to capture requirements and implement new map features and intuitive APIs.
• Engineer real-time scalable, highly-available map serving for a fleet of self-driving vehicles.

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Mapping

Translator

• Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Research Scientists and Engineers using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
• Lead and contribute to robotics and computer vision projects which ensure that accurate and low-latency state information is available to the running self-driving software at any given moment.
• Own and shape a key component of Waabi’s state estimation software, which includes identifying requirements, defining deliverables, and formulating meaningful milestones for the entire process.
• Develop projects such as online and offline localization, global localization, state bootstrapping.
• Develop robust deep-learning observation models that work in the most challenging environments.
• Develop novel methods capable of running on real-world hardware, leveraging a wide range of state-of-the-art sensors while ensuring robustness, stable long-term operation, and efficiency.
• Develop and maintain rigorous metrics & evaluation pipelines to monitor the evolution of key localization metrics over time.
• Work closely with a wide range of teams ranging from mapping to motion planning and control.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Localization

DevOps Engineer

• Quickly identify and diagnose issues that arise during vehicle testing and on-road operations.
• Utilize deep technical knowledge of both hardware and software to address failures and anomalies.
• Implement documented temporary fixes or workarounds to keep vehicles operational while permanent solutions are developed.
• Ensure that every applied workaround maintains safety and performance standards.
• Rigorously log, track, and document all vehicle issues using robust diagnostic and issue-tracking systems.
• Provide detailed reports that include reproduction steps, diagnostic data, and recommended actions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—spanning software, hardware, and operations—to conduct thorough root cause analyses on recurring issues.
• Translate technical data and observations into actionable insights for long-term system improvements.
• Recommend and implement process improvements and preventive measures to enhance overall vehicle reliability.
• Participate in both pre-test and post-test evaluations, ensuring vehicles are test-ready and that any issues are promptly addressed.
• Serve as the technical point of contact during vehicle testing.
• Identify opportunities to streamline troubleshooting protocols, automate diagnostic routines, and improve data capture methods to boost operational efficiency.
• Experience with continuous improvement (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies. Experience with established methodologies (e.g., 5 Whys, Fishbone diagrams, Fault Tree Analysis, or FMEA) to support the responsibility of conducting thorough root cause analyses on recurring issues.
• Functional Safety or Reliability Standards Experience in order to maintain vehicle uptime and safety. Experience maintaining and managing automotive safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262, UL 4600), hardware reliability standards, and/or formal quality management systems would be beneficial.
• Travel required 10%.

Vehicle Reliability Engineer

• Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Research Scientists and Engineers working on building a cutting-edge offline perception and auto-labelling system leveraging computer vision, and machine learning.
• Manage the end-to-end orchestration of the large-scale auto-labelling training, evaluation and automation eco-system.
• Architect and scale the pipeline to handle large-scale data and user requests using distributed computing frameworks.
• Collaborate with ML researchers and engineers to seamlessly deploy new architectures into the production environment.

Senior Software Engineer, Auto Labelling

Research Scientist

• Own and pursue a research agenda to develop realistic and controllable simulation agents.
• Advance the state-of-the-art in imitation learning, reinforcement learning, generative models, foundation models, planning and search, and other related areas for simulation agents.
• Collaborate with our simulation, autonomy, and safety teams to define high-impact research problems, ship solutions into production, and drive progress towards Waabi’s milestones.
• Mentor junior scientists and interns; foster a culture of scientific rigor and rapid experimentation.
• Publish high-impact research at top-tier conferences in machine learning or robotics.

Research Scientist, Simulation Agents

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Oversee and build out the FP&A team.
• Partner closely with the Corporate controller and leaders across the company to help shape strategies and define priorities across the organization.
• Responsibilities will include all facets of strategic planning, forecasting, reporting, and capital allocation.
• Focus on driving efficiency and reducing waste without compromising growth.
• Bring thought leadership and best practices to help Waabi scale its operations effectively.
• Comprehensive budget preparation and oversight.
• Regularly collaborate with leadership to monitor and adjust budgets as needed.
• Define, model and report on SaaS business metrics (ARR/MRR, Churn, CAC, LTV, etc.).
• Evaluate hardware costs, investments, and drive BOM cost optimization.
• Produce accurate and timely financial reports.
• Establish processes and methodologies to track and report on KPIs.
• Build financial systems that can support growth and scale.
• Take ownership of selecting and implementing FP&A tools.
• Work closely with leadership on long term (3-5yr) planning.
• Conduct in-depth financial analysis to support decision making.
• Recruit, develop, motivate, and retain a highly effective finance team.

Director, FP&A

Solutions Engineer

• Act as the primary solutions engineer for prospective enterprise partners [Shipper + Fleets], guiding them through the operational transformation of adopting AV trucks.
• Contribute to securing long term partners that will be a cornerstone of Waabi’s initial commercial efforts.
• Apply deep analytical skills to customer data, ensuring our solutions align with their existing logistics and operational constraints.
• Design custom network analyses and redesign proposals that illustrate how AV capacity can optimize customers supply chains in both a current and future state.
• Build detailed ROI models that quantify the value of autonomy for the customers specific use cases.
• Develop and maintain credibility and trust with customer stakeholders by demonstrating deep knowledge of their supply chain dynamics.
• Participate and share ideas internally to redefine our GTM approach based on real-time feedback from customer engagements.

Senior Solutions Engineer

Engineer

• Lead projects to improve tools and processes to efficiently discover and track issues.
• Use an automation first approach to evaluate software releases and improve our release process.
• Implement a data driven methodology for issue prioritization and resolution.
• Create high quality documentation to train new team members and productionalize novel processes.
• Help drive Waabi’s safety culture through application of safety standards and methodologies in your area of responsibility across all supporting teams at Waabi including Systems Engineering, Hardware and Software.
• Support the documentation and tracing of all product and system requirements to tests and their executions.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance Waabi’s behavioral evaluation capabilities, look for novel approaches, identify and apply lessons learned and ensure a detailed and comprehensive documentation that is easily accessible.

Triage Engineer

Accountant

• Prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, prepaid expenses, and reclassifications.
• Perform balance sheet account reconciliations and investigate variances.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
• Assist with accounts payable and accounts receivable, including invoice review, coding, and payment processing.
• Support payroll accounting and related reconciliations.
• Maintain fixed asset schedules and depreciation calculations.
• Assist with audit preparation, including supporting schedules and documentation.
• Help maintain accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Collaborate with FP&A, HR, purchasing and other teams to support reporting and operational needs.
• Participate in process improvement initiatives and system enhancements.