Waabi
Robotics · Autonomous trucking
Robotics · Autonomous trucking
Currently tracking 29 active AI roles, down 62% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Data · Engineering. Salary range $122k–$296k (avg $203k).
Waabi currently has 37 active AI-related job listings. The hiring is distributed across several stages, with data roles representing 24% of the openings, followed by application, agents, and serving infrastructure, each at 16%. The dominant function is Engineering, with 26 roles, and hiring is occurring in both the United States and Canada. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, inference_infra, and evals, suggesting a focus on operationalizing AI models. Over the last 30 days, Waabi posted 1 new AI role, a decrease from the previous 30-day period.
Waabi currently has 34 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: 2026 Intern, PhD Research Scientist, Applied Scientist, Distillation Lead, Lead Product Manager, Autonomy, Platform Systems Engineer; Sensing and Perception, Maps and Localization. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Waabi's active AI hiring is concentrated in: data (24%), agents (18%), serving infrastructure (18%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Waabi is hiring AI talent in: United States (33 roles), Canada (33 roles).
Job postings at Waabi most frequently mention: Machine Learning, Autonomous Driving, Computer Vision, Robotics, Simulation.
In the past 30 days, Waabi has posted 1 new AI-related role.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Distillation Lead Lead the strategy and execution for model distillation and compression across Waabi's AI stack, focusing on efficient deployment for onboard autonomy and simulation. This involves designing and implementing state-of-the-art pipelines, collaborating with cross-functional teams, defining evaluation frameworks, mentoring engineers, and staying at the cutting edge of research. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Research Engineer, World Models Research Engineer focused on developing and productionizing large-scale world models for autonomous transportation, including video, multimodal, LLM/VLM/VLA, and predictive models. The role involves designing, implementing, and scaling generative and predictive systems, optimizing training and inference, building data pipelines, and ensuring code quality, with a focus on robotics applications. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Research Scientist, World Models Research Scientist role focused on developing and productionizing large-scale world models for temporal reasoning and generation in the context of autonomous transportation. This involves research in video generation, multimodal foundation models, LLM/VLM/VLA methods, and generative scenario modeling, with a strong emphasis on publishing research and integrating models into training pipelines. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Neural Reconstruction Research Scientist focused on developing next-generation neural scene-representation and reconstruction algorithms for autonomous transportation, transforming sensor data into digital worlds. This role involves fundamental and applied research in 3D/4D neural reconstruction, dynamic scene reconstruction, and multi-sensor learning, directly powering simulation and rendering systems. | Data | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Simulation Agents Research Scientist focused on developing simulation agents and scenario generation algorithms for autonomous transportation, advancing state-of-the-art in ML/RL, and publishing research. The role involves shipping solutions into production and contributing to the scientific safety case. | DataAgent | 9 |
| Research Internship/Co-op Research internship/co-op role focused on developing new AI algorithms for autonomous vehicles, covering areas like perception, prediction, and motion planning. The role involves implementing, training, and optimizing algorithms, with encouragement to publish research externally and contribute to open source projects. | Data | 9 |
| 2026 Intern, PhD Research Scientist Research Scientist intern role focused on developing novel AI algorithms for autonomous vehicles, pushing the frontiers of the field, and publishing research at top conferences. Requires a PhD in a relevant technical field and a publication record. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Research Engineer, Neural Rendering Research Engineer focused on creating next-generation multi-sensor rendering systems for autonomous driving using techniques like NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and diffusion models. The role involves building large-scale digital twins from real-world data and shipping production-quality simulation software. | ServeData | 9 |
| Research Scientist, Learnable Planner Research Scientist focused on developing deep learning-based motion planning for autonomous trucks, leveraging and advancing state-of-the-art robotics and ML techniques, including imitation and reinforcement learning, planning, perception, prediction, simulation, and foundation models. The role involves contributing to a scalable planning solution and a high-fidelity simulator, with a requirement to publish research externally and support deployment to production systems. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior / Staff Perception Engineer Senior/Staff Perception Engineer at Waabi, a Physical AI company focused on autonomous transportation. The role involves prototyping, evaluating, and deploying perception algorithms (3D detection, tracking, semantic understanding) for self-driving vehicles, leveraging deep learning and computer vision. It requires shipping ML models to production and collaborating with platform teams for integration. The role also emphasizes engineering excellence, code quality, and staying updated with AI/ML advancements. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Research Scientist Research Scientist role focused on inventing new AI technologies for autonomous transportation, specifically for fully driverless trucks. The role involves pushing the frontiers of AI research in areas like perception, motion forecasting, controls, and simulation, leveraging the latest advances in transformers, foundational models, LLMs/VLMs, and reinforcement learning. Collaboration with platform teams for production deployment and publishing research externally are key aspects. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Senior / Staff Applied Scientist The role focuses on designing and building scalable production frameworks for evaluating autonomous driving systems, measuring the performance and reliability of the evaluation infrastructure, and developing analytical models to correlate simulation with real-world driving outcomes. It sits at the intersection of Evaluation, Systems & Safety, and Autonomy teams. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Senior / Staff ML Training Optimization Engineer Senior/Staff ML Training Optimization Engineer to build standardized distributed training frameworks, profile model runtime and memory, identify and evaluate emerging technologies for training and inference, and work with researchers on resource usage best-practices. Focus on optimizing training efficiency and stability. | DataServe | 8 |
| Lead Product Manager, Autonomy Lead Product Manager for the core autonomy stack of an autonomous transportation company. This role involves defining and executing the product roadmap, translating complex use cases into requirements, leading cross-functional alignment, and analyzing performance data to ensure the commercialization of advanced autonomy capabilities in a safety-critical environment. | Ship | 8 |
| Senior / Staff ML Onboard Optimization Engineer This role focuses on optimizing and deploying machine learning models for onboard compute systems in autonomous vehicles. It involves expanding the deployment pipeline, optimizing models using frameworks like TensorRT, and creating custom CUDA kernels for inference. The engineer will also profile model runtime and memory to identify performance bottlenecks. | Serve | 8 |
| Research Engineer, Learnable Planner (Integration) Research Engineer role focused on integrating ML models into the production planning stack for autonomous trucks, developing simulation pipelines, and improving planner architecture. Requires MS/PhD in a related field and experience with ML-based planning techniques, deep learning frameworks, and programming languages like Python, Rust, C++, or CUDA. Bonus for production deployment experience and model iteration. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Research Engineer Research Engineer role focused on advancing and deploying AI algorithms for self-driving vehicles, bridging research insights with production systems and ensuring high-quality code. The role involves working with large datasets and simulations, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams on perception, forecasting, planning, and simulation, and contributing to publications. Experience in applied research and turning research ideas into practical solutions is required. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Platform Verification Engineer - Software Systems This role focuses on the verification of autonomous vehicle platform software, including subsystems like localization, motion planning, and control. The engineer will develop and maintain test infrastructure, including simulation and CI, and create statistical analysis methods to inspect platform performance. The goal is to validate AV software releases before physical deployment, ensuring the quality and safety of the AI-driven autonomous driving system. | Ship | 7 |
| Applied Scientist The Applied Scientist will focus on developing and maintaining cross-modal dashboards for analyzing the performance of the autonomous driving system. This role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure a unified and trustworthy view of system performance, shaping eval tooling, and investigating anomalies in metrics. The goal is to provide actionable insights for decision-making across simulation, track, and public road testing. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer, High-Performance Onboard Algorithms Senior/Staff Software Engineer focused on optimizing real-time signal processing pipelines for autonomous driving, handling massive sensor data with low latency and high reliability on target hardware using parallel computing architectures (CPU, GPU, accelerators). | Serve | 7 |
| Senior / Staff Machine Learning Ops Engineer This role focuses on building and maintaining MLOps pipelines for machine learning models in the autonomous transportation domain. It involves automating training, testing, and deployment, as well as monitoring and optimizing pipeline performance for scalability and cost-effectiveness. The role requires strong Python, ML framework, cloud platform, and containerization skills. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Localization Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Localization team at Waabi, focusing on architecting and developing highly precise, robust state estimation systems for autonomous vehicles. This role involves designing algorithms for multi-sensor fusion, optimizing Rust code for real-time vehicle compute, and building evaluation frameworks. The position requires deep expertise in probabilistic robotics, state estimation, SLAM, and sensor data processing, with a strong emphasis on deploying these algorithms in real-world autonomous driving systems. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Auto Labelling Senior Software Engineer to build and scale an offline perception and auto-labelling system using computer vision and machine learning for autonomous transportation. The role involves end-to-end orchestration of training, evaluation, and automation, and deploying new architectures into production. | DataServe | 7 |
| Platform Systems Engineer; Sensing and Perception, Maps and Localization This role is for a Platform Systems Engineer focused on Sensing, Perception, Maps, and Localization for autonomous vehicles. The engineer will drive technical execution, architect requirements, own contract definitions, lead cross-functional integration, validate via data, advance simulation, build the safety case, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics, strong domain expertise in sensing, perception, and localization, and knowledge of systems engineering and V&V best practices. Experience with AI/ML integration and advanced safety standards is a bonus. | AgentData | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Evaluation Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building evaluation infrastructure and tooling for an autonomous driving system. This involves developing pipelines, implementing metrics, and creating query services for analyzing driving performance data from real-world and simulated sources, leveraging generative AI in the simulation engine. | Eval GateData | 7 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer, ML Datasets & Data Pipelines This role focuses on designing and implementing scalable ML data pipelines for training and evaluating deep learning models for an autonomous driving platform. It involves optimizing data formats, caching, dataloading, and improving data sampling for introspection and edge-case identification. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, Python proficiency, and experience with deep learning frameworks and distributed ETL pipelines. | Data | 7 |
| Safety Engineer, Collision Risk This role focuses on developing and implementing safety framework methods for autonomous trucking, using simulation, real-world data, and generative AI. The engineer will define requirements for automated assessment workflows, develop quantitative metrics, optimize test coverage, and ensure traceability between requirements and safety claims. The role involves collaboration with autonomy and algorithms teams to ensure the safety and readiness of the autonomous system. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Simulation Platform The role involves contributing to and improving a state-of-the-art self-driving simulator (Waabi World) that uses generative AI. Key responsibilities include enhancing scalability and performance, designing and implementing orchestration software for simulation subcomponents (autonomy system, actor models, sensor simulation), and collaborating with researchers and engineers. The goal is to accelerate autonomous vehicle development by providing a realistic environment for training and evaluation. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning Senior/Staff Software Engineer role focused on designing and developing motion planning software and algorithms for autonomous vehicles, acting as the 'brain' for decision-making in complex traffic scenarios. The role involves an AI-first approach within a multidisciplinary team of Engineers and Research Scientists to build a reliable autonomy stack. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Labelling, Data & Automation Software Engineer on the Labelling and Data Automation team responsible for building pipelines, tools, and workflows to accelerate the development of AI-first self-driving technology. This role is critical in the training pipeline, focusing on data extraction, labeling, and integration for ML scientists and engineers. It also involves deploying open-set/embedding models for search and curation. | Data | 6 |
| Lead Technical Program Manager, Platform Integration Lead Technical Program Manager for Platform Integration at Waabi, a Physical AI company focused on autonomous transportation. The role focuses on program-level execution and cross-functional integration between hardware, software, autonomy, and safety teams. Responsibilities include defining integrated program plans, managing dependencies, identifying critical paths, reporting risks, and building scalable tracking mechanisms. Requires strong TPM experience with a focus on hardware/software integration, experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics, and familiarity with AI/ML development workflows. | — | 5 |
| Sensors Team Lead This role leads sensor development strategy and roadmap for Waabi's autonomous driving technology, focusing on Lidar, Radar, and Camera integration, evaluation, and optimization. The role involves managing technical relationships with vendors, overseeing the sensor integration pipeline, and ensuring data quality and reliability in collaboration with the Autonomy & AI team. | — | 5 |
| Staff Commercial Product Manager, Trucking Product Manager for Waabi's commercial autonomous trucking product, focusing on defining and scaling the operating models, service capabilities, and customer-facing requirements to bring the Waabi Driver to market and expand its network. This role bridges autonomy, operations, and business development to turn driverless technology into a deployable, scalable, and valuable commercial product. | — | 5 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Mapping Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Mapping team, responsible for building and maintaining the AI-driven mapping infrastructure for autonomous vehicles. This role involves developing scalable pipelines, designing APIs, and engineering real-time serving systems, with a focus on distributed systems and production-quality software. | Serve | 5 |
| Vehicle Reliability Engineer This role focuses on ensuring the reliability of autonomous vehicles by diagnosing and resolving issues that arise during testing and operation. It involves deep technical knowledge of hardware and software, rigorous documentation, root cause analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to implement improvements and preventive measures. The role also emphasizes safety and performance standards, and potentially experience with functional safety or reliability standards like ISO 26262. | — | 5 |
| Platform Systems Engineer; Motion Planning and Control This role focuses on defining and developing requirements for motion planning, motion control, and vehicle dynamics in an autonomous vehicle system. It involves creating methods, using data for verification, and advancing simulation, with a strong emphasis on systems engineering and control theory within a Level 4 AV context. | — | 5 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Observability / SRE) Senior/Staff Software Engineer focused on designing, leading, and developing Waabi's observability and SRE stack for cloud and on-prem environments. This includes developing workloads and benchmarks for ML/AI, optimizing performance across various system layers, and building automation tooling for CI/CD, telemetry, and anomaly detection. The role also involves supporting client teams and influencing system architecture for scalability and monitoring. | Serve | 5 |
| Systems Engineer, Platform Requirements and Verification Waabi is seeking a Systems Engineer to own the creation, documentation, alignment, and verification of vehicle platform requirements for their autonomous transportation technology. This role involves defining requirements for sensors, compute, and actuators, ensuring safety through standards like ISO 26262, and improving simulation capabilities for verification. The engineer will also manage test execution, enhance platform capabilities, and work with external partners to build a safe vehicle platform and support the safety case for the self-driving system. | — | 5 |
| Senior / Staff Graphics Software Engineer This role focuses on building the next generation of multi-sensor rendering software for autonomous driving, integrating traditional real-time rendering with neural rendering techniques. The engineer will collaborate with scientists and researchers to create simulation environments for self-driving technology, with opportunities for publication in top conferences. | Data | 5 |
| Fleet Specialist This role supports autonomous vehicle operations by monitoring systems in-truck, logging data, preparing vehicles for missions, and managing data offloads. It acts as a technical liaison between the autonomous systems and real-world operations, ensuring data integrity and fleet readiness. | — | 5 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Web Tools This role is for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Tools team at Waabi, an AI company focused on self-driving technology. The team builds and maintains software tools that support Waabi's AI-first approach to self-driving development, including interactive simulation, labeling, annotation, and data curation tools. The role involves leading technical discussions, mentoring engineers, and building interactive web tools. While the company is AI-focused and the tools support AI development, the core craft of this role is software engineering for web tools, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior / Staff Software Engineer Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Waabi, a leader in Physical AI for autonomous transportation. The role involves building reliable and scalable tools and frameworks to support Autonomous Vehicle (AV) development using an AI-first approach, leading technical discussions, and mentoring other engineers. Requires 5+ years of industry experience and proficiency in languages like Python, Go, C++, or Rust. Experience in robotics or machine learning is a plus. | Ship | 5 |
| Mechanical Lead Lead a team of Mechanical Engineers and R&D Technicians, owning the technical roadmap for mechanical design, assembly, test, and integration of sensors, compute, modules, and actuation systems for autonomous vehicles. This role involves partnering with various teams, driving execution, setting engineering standards, managing suppliers, and developing the Pittsburgh engineering function. | — | 0 |
| Senior Recruiter Recruiter for Waabi, a leader in Physical AI focused on autonomous transportation. The role involves full-cycle recruitment for technical and non-technical roles in the US and Canada, partnering with hiring managers, managing the ATS, and improving hiring processes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Accounting Manager This role is for a Senior Accounting Manager at Waabi, a company focused on Physical AI for autonomous transportation. The primary responsibilities include leading accounting processes like monthly close, financial statement consolidation, and US GAAP reporting. A key aspect of the role involves leveraging AI to automate and streamline these accounting functions, identifying efficiencies, and improving accuracy. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, 5+ years of accounting experience, strong US GAAP knowledge, and proficiency in accounting software. Experience with AI automation in accounting is a demonstrated ability requirement. | — | 0 |
| HW V&V Lead Lead Hardware Verification and Validation (V&V) for Waabi, focusing on scaling capabilities, team leadership, execution of functional and performance tests, cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring regulatory compliance for autonomous transportation hardware. | — | 0 |
| HR Business Partner HR Business Partner role at Waabi, a company focused on Physical AI and autonomous transportation. The role involves acting as a consultant to senior leaders, supporting employees and managers, analyzing data, leading change management, implementing performance management, stewarding company culture, and partnering on compensation and benefits. Requires 6+ years of HR experience, with a focus on HRBP capacity in a fast-paced tech environment. Bonus points for experience supporting operational teams, startups, or the autonomous vehicle industry, and direct experience leveraging AI in HR workflows. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Canadian Policy and Public Affairs This role is for a Senior Manager, Canadian Policy and Public Affairs at Waabi, a company focused on Physical AI and autonomous transportation. The position involves cultivating relationships with government officials, tracking legislation, building government support, representing the company in industry associations, and leading the drafting of regulatory comments. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in Canadian government relations and public policy, with a preference for tech or transportation industry experience and familiarity with Autonomous Vehicle (AV) policy. | — | 0 |
| Senior AV Training Program Manager This role focuses on designing, developing, and improving training programs for autonomous vehicle (AV) operations, ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations. It involves managing onboarding, professional development, and performance tracking for training staff and operational personnel. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer Mechanical Engineer responsible for the design, assembly, test, and integration of sensors, compute, modules, and actuation systems for autonomous vehicles. This role involves working closely with the software team to translate AI/software requirements into hardware specifications, designing for automotive environments, supporting builds, managing suppliers, and resolving technical issues. | — | 0 |