Senior / Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling

The role

You will design, build and ship internal AI tooling, agents and workflows that make every team at Waabi more productive. You will work with engineers, researchers and business teams to understand their pain points and co-design AI workflows.

What you will do

• Design, build and ship custom internal tooling, agents and workflows for Waabi's autonomy codebase, simulation, ML training and research, and business teams
• Integrate and extend third-party AI tools such as coding assistants and agents
• Evaluate new AI tools, models and agent frameworks through structured pilots and give technical recommendations
• Partner with engineers, researchers and business teams to prototype solutions and iterate on real usage
• Build observability for AI tooling: usage, adoption, cost and quality
• Implement guardrails for responsible AI tooling with Security, Legal, IT and Infrastructure
• Drive adoption through documentation, enablement, office hours and hands-on support

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Track record of shipping tools, platforms or products used by large internal or external user bases
• Hands-on familiarity with current AI coding tools and agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex or similar)
• Experience building and shipping AI-powered products, agents or workflows, including prompt engineering, evals, tool use and LLM integration in production
• Strong proficiency in Python (or another common programming language)
• Comfort with modern build systems, CI/CD pipelines and developer infrastructure
• Strong product instincts and judgment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous, fast-moving territory and influence engineers, researchers and business partners
• Passion for self-driving technologies, frontier AI and using AI to expand what a small team can do

Nice to have

• Prior experience in developer productivity, platform engineering or AI tooling, ideally with ML, robotics or autonomous systems infrastructure
• Experience working with non-engineering stakeholders such as Finance, Commercial, Marketing, HR, Legal and Operations
• Experience building AI workflows or automation for business functions outside engineering
• Experience deploying and operating AI systems in security- and IP-sensitive environments
• Contributions to open-source AI tooling, agent frameworks or developer tools

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity awards
• Medical, dental and vision coverage (full-time employees only)
• Unlimited vacation
• Flexible hours and work-from-home support
• Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals when in office
• Regular team building activities and social events on-site, off-site and virtual

Before you apply

• Waabi is an equal opportunity employer
• Reasonable accommodations are available for the application and interview process on request

About the company

Waabi, founded by Raquel Urtasun, is a technology start-up in Physical AI building autonomous transportation, including commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. It has offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas and Pittsburgh.