Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.

The latest advances in AI tooling is fundamentally changing all teams' ways of working - from ML model development, to traditional software development, to non-technical business functions. We are building a dedicated AI Technical Strike Team to establish centralized best practices for working with AI across Waabi with the aim of maximizing productivity. We are looking for hands-on senior software engineers to build the AI tooling, agents, and workflows that accelerate how we work.

As a Software Engineer on the AI Tech Strike Team, you will design, build, and ship the tools that compound the productivity of every team at Waabi. The team will own a mix of core tooling work and deployed engagements, where members of the team work closely with functions across Waabi to understand their pain points and co-design AI workflows to maximize productivity. 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 recent AI tools, models, and agent frameworks as they emerge, run structured pilots, and provide clear technical recommendations that inform build-vs-buy decisions. 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. 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. ~ Passionate about self-driving technologies, frontier AI, and using AI to push the boundary of what a small, world-class team can accomplish.

Bonus/nice to have: 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., Experience deploying and operating AI systems in security- and IP-sensitive environments. Contributions to open-source AI tooling, agent frameworks, or developer tools.

Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus. Competitive compensation and equity awards. 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.

Waabi is a technology start-up building technologies to transform the way the world moves. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and accessible workplace for all our employees. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, caregiver status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We make workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

📌 Senior / Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling (Toronto)
🏢 Waabi
📍 Toronto