Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics

The role

You will design and build machine-learned models of vehicle behavior and dynamics for vehicle control problems. You will work on a multidisciplinary team to enable safe self-driving at scale.

What you will do

• Design and develop data-driven and machine-learned approaches to vehicle control problems.
• Develop learned models of vehicle behavior and dynamics and integrate them into closed-loop simulation.
• Apply machine learning to improve how the controller adapts across vehicles and operating conditions.
• Own problems end to end, from offline experimentation through simulation and on-vehicle validation.
• Build data pipelines, evaluation metrics, and tooling to measure whether a learned approach beats the classical baseline.
• Take part in technical and architecture discussions on how learning and classical control coexist in a safety-critical stack.

Required qualifications

• MS/PhD, or Bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of industry experience in Robotics, Controls, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar technical field.
• Demonstrated depth in control theory and dynamic systems (e.g., MPC, optimal control, state estimation, system identification, kinematic and dynamic vehicle modeling).
• Hands-on experience applying machine learning to a physical system with real hardware in the loop, not simulation alone.
• Production-quality coding skill in Python and C++, and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Solid problem solving skills using linear algebra, optimization, statistics and probability.
• Ability to rapidly prototype and test new algorithms, and to design experiments that prove whether they work.
• Open-minded, collaborative team player willing to help others.
• Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive perks and benefits.
• Equity incentive awards.
• Annual performance bonus.

Before you apply

• Salary ranges are determined by several factors under the Company's compensation practices.

About the company

Waabi is building AI-first self-driving technology. This role sits within its multidisciplinary team of engineers and research scientists.