Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Waabi is a technology company building Physical AI technologies for autonomous transportation. The Senior / Staff Software Engineer will design, build, and ship AI tooling, agents, integrations, and workflows that improve productivity across engineering, research, and business teams. The role will also evaluate AI tools, build observability and guardrails, and drive adoption through documentation and support.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship custom internal tooling, agents, and workflows tailored to Waabi — supporting our autonomy codebase, simulation environments, ML training pipelines, and research workflows, as well as agents and automations for business teams
- Integrate and extend third-party AI tools — from coding assistants and agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to AI tools for non-engineering functions — building the integrations, configurations, and internal extensions that make them work well for Waabi
- Evaluate new AI tools, models, and agent frameworks as they emerge, run structured pilots, and provide clear technical recommendations that inform build-vs-buy decisions
- Partner directly with engineers, researchers, and business teams to understand their workflows, prototype solutions quickly, and iterate based on real usage
- Build observability around AI tooling at Waabi — tracking usage, adoption, cost, and quality — so we can prioritize with data and understand impact
- Implement the guardrails for responsible AI tooling at Waabi in partnership with Security, Legal, IT, and Infrastructure
- Drive adoption of the tools you build through documentation, enablement, office hours, and hands-on support — helping every team get more out of their tools every week
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping tools, platforms, or products used by large internal or external user bases
- Deep, hands-on familiarity with the current generation of AI coding tools and agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar), and demonstrated experience building and shipping AI-powered products, agents, or workflows — including prompt engineering, evals, tool use, and integrating LLMs into production systems
- Strong proficiency in Python (or another common programming language), and comfort working across modern build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer infrastructure
- Strong product instincts and judgment: you can identify high-leverage problems across a diverse set of teams, scope pragmatic solutions, and ship things that actually get adopted
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in ambiguous, fast-moving territory and influencing engineers, researchers, and business partners
- Passionate about self-driving technologies, frontier AI, and using AI to push the boundary of what a small, world-class team can accomplish
- Prior experience in a developer productivity, platform engineering, or AI tooling role, ideally with exposure to ML, robotics, or autonomous systems infrastructure (e.g., training pipelines, simulation tooling, large monorepos)
- Experience working effectively with non-engineering stakeholders — translating business workflows into technical solutions for functions like Finance, Commercial, Marketing, HR, Legal, and Operations
- Experience building AI workflows or automation for business functions outside of engineering (e.g., finance automation, marketing operations, HR workflows)
- Experience deploying and operating AI systems in security- and IP-sensitive environments
- Contributions to open-source AI tooling, agent frameworks, or developer tools
Benefits
- Equity incentive awards
- An annual performance bonus
- Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).
- Unlimited Vacation.
- Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
- Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
- Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.
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