Waabi

Account Manager

• Develop and execute a detailed automotive and partnership strategy aligned with Waabi’s goals.
• Be a key business interface between Waabi and OEM partners and drive negotiations.
• Work cross-functionally with Waabi’s engineering, product, finance, and legal teams to negotiate new deals and execute upon existing contracts.
• Build, manage and evolve strong partnerships to support Waabi’s business objectives.
• Structure and negotiate partnership agreements with win-win incentives and balanced terms.
• Evaluate and maintain partner engagement by building trusted relationships with partners and developing a thorough understanding of their priorities and challenges.
• Convey business & product requirements in collaboration with technical stakeholders, taking into consideration Waabi’s overall strategy and objectives.

Director – OEM & Strategic Partnerships

Solutions Engineer

• Support productizing and deploying perception algorithms to our self-driving vehicles, collaborating closely with platform teams to ensure seamless integration of research findings into our self-driving system.
• Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well structured and tested code.
• Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team solving problems related to perception, motion forecasting, planning, traffic modeling and sensor simulation, integrating research findings into our self-driving system and contributing to the development of a unified self-driving platform.
• Solve challenging integration issues across a number of sensor modalities (LIDAR, RADAR, cameras...) and deep learning models (perception, prediction, implicit representations).
• Develop new features by finding innovative ways to use generally trained perception models.
• Develop onboard code to bring new interpretable and robust perception features to the road.

PnP Onboard Integration Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer

• Work alongside a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
• Collaborate with hardware team on vehicle compute and network designs and implementation.
• Work with software and hardware teams on OS and software delivery into vehicles.
• Assist with vehicle compute and network performance tuning and diagnostics as needed.
• Work with software and hardware teams to implement and maintain high volume data pipelines.
• Work on multiple projects designing, building, deploying tools, systems and infrastructure to support vehicle development.
• Design and implement high performance physical networks and computing systems.

Senior / Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Architect and implement the next generation of our scenario framework, evolving it to support scenario generation at scale for Waabi World and Mixed Reality Testing.
• Design clean, intuitive APIs that empower researchers, autonomy developers, and systems engineers across Waabi to author and generate scenarios easily and efficiently.
• Build robust systems in Python and Rust that balance flexibility, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with researchers to productionize cutting-edge research into robust, scalable systems.
• Champion engineering excellence and contribute to the technical direction of the team.

Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Scenarios

Research Engineer

• Architect robust and scalable training and evaluation frameworks for IL/RL-based traffic agents.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines for generating large-scale training datasets.
• Productionize cutting-edge research into robust, scalable systems in Waabi World, our simulation platform.
• Contribute to technical direction and strategy for realistic traffic agents and scenario generation.

Senior/Staff Research Engineer, Simulation Agents

Operations

• Lead IT Operations at Waabi, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
• Develop, implement, and enforce IT policies, standards, and best practices across all sites, ensuring compliance with company security standards and industry regulations.
• Design, implement, and manage site disaster recovery plans, ensuring business continuity and data integrity.
• Oversee the procurement, deployment, and lifecycle management of a diverse fleet of IT equipment, including laptops, high-performance workstations, and specialized computing infrastructure.
• Manage vendor relationships, IT-related budgets, expenses, and assets
• Strategically manage and optimize the service desk workflow, ensuring efficient resolution of tickets received via JIRA, email, instant messaging, and verbal requests.
• Design, configure, and maintain a high-throughput, on-premise network infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering and Research teams to ensure seamless integration, security, and optimal performance of systems and networks supporting our AI development.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for IT processes and systems, leveraging automation and innovative solutions.
• Create and maintain a productive and secure working environment for staff, upholding company security standards and industry best practices.
• Lead the selection, implementation, and management of SaaS applications at scale (e.g., Google Workspace, Slack), ensuring their efficient and secure operation.
• Develop and implement robust configuration management strategies using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

Senior IT Operations Specialist

Engineer

• Select and evaluate sensors for future platforms.
• Collaborate with suppliers to understand roadmaps, emerging technologies, resolve technical issues, and source sensors.
• Manage all aspects of sensor integration and configuration.
• Characterize and evaluate sensor performance, developing strategies for improving accuracy, reliability, and durability.
• Ensure successful integration of sensors within the autonomous vehicle system through cross-organizational collaboration.
• Build test assets for sensor evaluation, characterization, and validation.
• Conduct field testing, data collection, and data analysis, documenting and reporting results.
• Provide support for other sensor modalities and engineers as needed.
• Collaborate on shared team tooling, infrastructure, and test assets.

Senior Sensor Engineer

• Lead technical and architecture discussions, collaborating with Researchers and Engineers.
• Mentor other software engineers via code reviews, technical design reviews, and sharing general software development best practices.
• Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Researchers using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
• Build and maintain interactive web tools including interactive simulation, custom labelling tools, data annotation tools, dataset curation tools, result comparison tools, and more.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Web Tools

• Bring sight to robot trucks by integrating, fielding, ruggedizing and productionizing sensor systems for Waabi Driver
• Solve challenging integration issues across sensor modalities (LIDAR, RADAR, cameras)
• Deploy and debug software on real vehicles operating in the field daily
• Integrate new types of sensors into existing and future onboard platforms
• Work closely with multidisciplinary development teams to design and build innovative sensor solutions
• Work closely with operations teams to understand live system behavior, resolve issues, and mature the system going forward

Software Engineer, Onboard Software, Sensors

• Help shape the Waabi sensors platform as we scale from.
• Solve challenging integration issues across a number of sensor modalities (LIDAR, RADAR, cameras...).
• Deploy and debug software on real vehicles operating in the field daily.
• Integrate new types of sensors into existing and future onboard platforms.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary development teams to design and build innovative sensor solutions.
• Work closely with operations teams to understand live system behavior, resolve issues and form opinions on how we can mature our system going forward.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Onboard Software, Sensors

Sales

• Work with the executive leadership team, building the go-to-market strategy for driving commercial adoption of the Waabi Driver.
• Establish strong relationships and develop partnerships with new and existing customers to adopt and integrate Waabi’s autonomous solutions providing insights and recommendations on the transformation of their business to prepare for autonomy.
• Help build and drive Waabi’s customer engagement programs through managing the entire lifecycle of adoption and integration.
• Drive the end-to-end execution of the go-to-market customer strategy resulting in both early stage adoption and mid to long term rapid growth.
• Over time define, hire and manage an industry leading sales team to drive commercial excellence and growth with our shippers.
• Bring the necessary customer insights to both ongoing product development, customer operations and the partnership ecosystem strategy.
• Build and manage customer pipelines, pricing strategies/financial models, performance and tracking as it pertains to deals, negotiations, and customer engagement.
• Work cross-functionally with Waabi’s engineering, product, business, finance, and legal teams to negotiate new deals and execute upon existing contracts.
• Structure and negotiate custom / first of their kind partnership agreements with win-win incentives and balanced terms.
• Evaluate and maintain partner engagement by building trusted relationships with partners and developing a thorough understanding of their priorities and challenges.
• Convey business & product requirements in collaboration with technical stakeholders, taking into consideration Waabi’s overall strategy and objectives.

Director of Sales, Shipper

Analyst

• Evaluate driving behaviors in simulation, closed course testing and public road operations and document findings thoroughly.
• Support the creation of comprehensive scenario sets used during development and as part of the safety case for driverless operation.
• Influence and help design highly automated, self-maintaining evaluation tools leveraging generative AI.
• Validate product and system requirements across all testing modalities and support tracing of requirements to tests and executions.
• Execute the review process for a driverless system: discover issues, report to appropriate owners, and coordinate resolutions through root cause analysis.
• Act as a liaison between Systems Engineering and autonomy software development teams to drive product and safety goals.
• Help drive Waabi's safety culture through application of safety standards and methodologies across supporting teams.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance behavioral evaluation capabilities, identify and apply lessons learned, and ensure accessible documentation.
• Work with external partners to gather data and information related to truck driving behaviors and support a strong safety case for the complete self-driving system.

Triage Analyst

• Collaborate with cross functional teams (Maps, Data, Simulation) to curate and generate high-quality datasets for training and evaluating the online mapping system.
• Work closely with Perception and Motion Forecasting teams to design, evaluate, and iterate on robust online mapping algorithms that adapt to real-world changes (road closures, construction, traffic patterns).
• Partner with platform teams to ensure integration, deployment and continuous operation of the online mapping system within self-driving vehicles.
• Champion engineering excellence by writing high-quality, well structured and tested code.
• Contribute to research community by publishing findings at top conferences and sharing insights on Waabi’s blog.

Research Engineer, Online Mapping

Systems Engineer

• You will… Own the creation, documentation, alignment and verification of vehicle platform requirements at Waabi and define ways for how to describe and evaluate them efficiently and effectively
• Bring an in-depth understanding of sensors, compute and actuators used in self-driving vehicles and drive an architecture with requirements that generate a simple yet very safe highly autonomous vehicle platform
• Act as a central point of contact at Waabi for specific vehicle platform requirements and related tests and communicate updates, progress and potential roadblocks to stakeholders at all levels
• 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
• Define necessary improvements for our highly realistic simulator to effectively verify most vehicle platform aspects under all required conditions and work with other teams at Waabi to get these improvements designed and implemented
• Own the writing and tracking of tests and test executions in line with company project milestones
• Continuously evaluate and enhance Waabi’s vehicle platform capabilities, look for novel approaches, identify and apply lessons learned and ensure a detailed and comprehensive documentation that is easily accessible
• Implement tools and methodologies to streamline and automate the vehicle platform requirement processes where applicable
• Work with external partners on delivering a safe vehicle platform that has been verified and validated to support a strong safety case for the complete self-driving system

Qualifications:
- Undergrad required; Masters or PhD within an engineering discipline preferred
- 3+ years of automotive, robotics, aerospace or related industry experience
- Experience with requirements-specifications and metrics
- Experience with executing complex vehicle test campaigns
- Experience with methods and standards such as ISO 26262, SOTIF (ISO 21448) and / or UL 4600
- Strong fundamentals in mathematics, engineering and physics and basic understanding of vehicle dynamics
- Excellent data analysis skills with modern tools such as Python or Matlab
- Open-minded and collaborative leader who is eager to provide guidance and has the willingness to help others
- Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions
- Experience with vehicle actuation (brakes, steering, propulsion)

Bonus/nice to have:
- Experience in launching a driverless product
- Experience in leading small teams of systems engineers
- Experience in the automotive self driving industry
- Experience building software systems from scratch
- Experience in robotics or machine learning
- Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis

The US yearly salary range for this role is: $140,000 - $190,000 USD in addition to competitive perks &amp; benefits. Waabi’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.  Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.