Jobs at Waabi

Reviews annotated sensor and map data for quality, identifies recurring issues, and recommends solutions. The role prepares reports, maintains annotation policies, develops training documentation, performs data annotation, tests internal tools, reports bugs, and creates visual assets. It also collaborates with stakeholders, partners, annotators, project managers, and engineers while supporting on-road operations and evolving program priorities.

Leads Waabi’s earned media, executive communications, internal communications, thought leadership, and communications agency relationship. Develops accurate narratives across technology, logistics, transportation, and business media; supports executive visibility; maintains external messaging guardrails; and builds the foundation for a future communications team.

Develop software and firmware for hardware-in-the-loop benches, including simulation interfaces, fault injection, test automation, CI integration, instrumentation, and data acquisition. Debug hardware/software interactions, support embedded and autonomy teams, analyze test data, and document results. The role requires Python and embedded C/C++/Rust, automotive CAN and Ethernet interfaces, Linux, lab equipment, and real-time testing experience.

Supports strategic finance and corporate development through financial modeling, long-range planning, business case development, deal analysis, capital strategy, FP&A, investor relations, and market intelligence. The Associate will build financial frameworks, support strategic partnerships and due diligence, prepare executive and board materials, manage investor reporting, and translate autonomy-sector trends into actionable insights for leadership.

Designs and governs scenario and test sets for autonomous-vehicle behavior verification. Owns validity checks and release-pipeline approvals, translates behavior requirements into testable criteria, investigates behavior deficiencies and test escapes, distinguishes real failures from simulation artifacts, and coordinates verification cadence across planning, simulation, evaluation, safety, operations, and platform teams.

Owns cross-functional program execution for platform software across hardware, embedded systems, onboard software, physical infrastructure, and systems engineering. Builds integrated plans, dependency maps, roadmaps, risk registers, executive reporting, and scalable tracking processes. Coordinates platform bring-up, software releases, testing, and milestone readiness while surfacing blockers and driving resolution across teams with different development cadences.

Own and improve operational metrics, dashboards, analytical datasets, data pipelines, and automated reporting for autonomous vehicle fleet operations. Analyze utilization, uptime, delays, downtime, readiness, mission performance, and commercial outcomes to identify root causes and improvement opportunities. Ensure data quality across systems, develop scalable workflows, and partner with Operations, Commercial, and Data Platform teams to deliver actionable insights and recommendations.

Manages day-to-day brand and digital marketing execution, including website publishing, paid advertising, social media, email campaigns, industry news, asset libraries, and performance reporting. Coordinates with marketing, communications, design, video, and vendor partners while supporting product marketing, events, facility branding, and executive social media. The role requires independent ownership, strong writing, and rapid execution during a six-month parental leave contract.

Own the production deployment of neural and generative models for Waabi’s multi-sensor simulator. Responsibilities include optimizing models with compilation, quantization, mixed precision, CUDA, and custom kernels; building numerical parity benchmarks; developing model export, versioning, registry, and build tooling; collaborating with research teams; and managing GPU workloads in cloud environments.

Lead the integrated robotaxi program plan from autonomy and vehicle readiness through safety validation, fleet operations, regulatory approvals, and commercial launch. Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, milestones, KPIs, executive reporting, and scalable tracking processes while coordinating engineering, safety, commercial, operations, and external partners.

Lead product definition for Waabi’s autonomous vehicle hardware platform across trucks and robotaxis. Own requirements, acceptance criteria, verification plans, human-machine interfaces, cabin and external safety features, and physical touchpoints. Partner closely with hardware engineering, industrial design, OEMs, and suppliers from concept through production. Translate real-world scenarios into testable requirements while balancing feasibility, cost, safety, and user needs.

Owns technical integration between Waabi’s autonomous driving technology and an OEM partner from program setup through driverless operation. Responsibilities include integrated planning, cross-functional coordination across hardware, embedded, onboard, infrastructure, and autonomy teams, risk and dependency management, executive communication, partner alignment, and hands-on vehicle issue triage.

The Global Supply Manager develops and executes sourcing strategies for indirect categories including IT hardware, SaaS, professional services, operations, and facilities. Responsibilities include leading RFx processes, negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships and performance, maintaining contract data, driving cost savings, optimizing procure-to-pay processes, forecasting budgets, and resolving supply chain issues. The role partners with Legal, Finance, and internal stakeholders and requires travel to Waabi locations up to 25% of the time.

Manage purchase order releases, material tracking, physical inventory, goods receipts, shipments, consigned inventory, cycle counts, supplier RMAs, and process documentation. The role supports Waabi’s global supply chain operations at its Lancaster facility, coordinates with suppliers, OEM partners, and carriers, and requires regular physical activity, including lifting materials and operating around facility equipment.

Lead Waabi’s compensation strategy, including salary, equity, variable pay, annual compensation cycles, benchmarking, forecasting, pay equity, compliance, and executive communications. Partner with Finance, Recruiting, managers, executives, and the board to design scalable compensation programs across U.S. and Canadian locations. Educate employees and managers on total rewards while using analytics and AI tools to improve compensation workflows.

Provide onsite and remote IT support across multiple locations, administering endpoints, identity systems, Linux environments, office infrastructure, networks, and security controls. Manage device lifecycles, user access, incidents, documentation, compliance, and automation while supporting specialized engineering environments and an on-call rotation.

Provide high-complexity calendar, travel, logistics, meeting preparation, and follow-up support for the CEO. Identify workflow inefficiencies, anticipate needs, track commitments, manage confidential information, and coordinate with executive assistants. Contribute to building the Office of the CEO, support special projects, improve operating systems, and flex across time zones and travel requirements in a fast-paced environment.

Leads Waabi’s commercial contracting function across hardware supply, OEM partnerships, software licensing, SaaS, services, and vendor agreements. Drafts and negotiates complex transactions, advises cross-functional teams on risk, manages contract compliance, and builds scalable templates, playbooks, and processes. Supports IP, open-source licensing, regulatory, export control, and data privacy matters related to commercial deals.

Supports FP&A by building budgets, forecasts, financial models, leadership and board reporting, KPI dashboards, and variance analyses. The role improves financial systems and reporting processes, evaluates investments, pricing, and cost-saving opportunities, and partners with leadership to strengthen financial planning and cash-flow management at a high-growth technology company.

Build and operate a reliable ML platform for large-scale distributed GPU training. Responsibilities include Kubernetes infrastructure, developer-facing CLIs and SDKs, AWS infrastructure, data and artifact management, experiment tracking, model registries, CI/CD, observability, documentation, security guardrails, and platform adoption. The role partners closely with researchers and engineers to improve training speed, reliability, usability, and cost efficiency for autonomous transportation systems.