Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Tech Strike Team

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 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• As we grow this list continues to evolve!