Senior / Staff Software Engineer, AI Tooling

Job description

Job 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…
• 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…
• 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.

Job requirements

• 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…
• 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.