Senior Network Engineer

Waabi; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 145,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Health benefits

Unlimited vacation

Work from home support

Catered meals / on-site snacks

Job summary

Waabi is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to own design, deployment, and lifecycle management of its multi-site network, spanning switching, routing, wireless, and security. You will lead ISP planning, implement robust incident response, and enforce standardized configurations across locations.

You will collaborate with Product Infrastructure and Engineering to ensure fast, reliable developer-facing network paths, scale on-prem compute/storage, and maintain comprehensive topology diagrams and

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of OSI model and networking, spanning multi-site environments.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise switching, routing, wireless, and lifecycle management.
• Experience operating firewalls, VPNs, and WAN optimization for multi-site orgs.
• Familiarity with mesh/overlay VPN and zero-trust tools.
• Experience with IPAM and VLAN design across multiple sites.
• Linux proficiency and IaC tooling experience (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform).
• Experience with network monitoring, observability, and incident-response processes.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to document findings clearly.
• Collaborative, cross-site mindset with ownership of responsibilities.
• Interest in self-driving technology and scaling infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own design, deployment, and lifecycle management of Waabi's multi-site network.
• Lead ISP/bandwidth planning for redundant, appropriately sized throughput.
• Manage network incident response, root-cause analysis, and runbooks.
• Audit and harden network configurations across all sites.
• Define and enforce network hardware/firmware standards.
• Maintain IP addressing, VLAN architecture, and segmentation.
• Evaluate zero-trust remote access tooling to meet security needs.
• Support vehicle connectivity with Product Infrastructure and Fleet teams.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure reliable developer-facing network paths.
• Scale network to support high-performing on-prem compute and storage clusters.
• Create and maintain network documentation and disaster-recovery processes.

Skills

OSI model mastery

Enterprise switching

Routing and wireless

Firewall/VPN expertise

Zero-trust tooling

IPAM & VLAN design

Linux proficiency

IaC tooling (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, TF

Network monitoring & incident response

Documentation & postmortems

Collaborative cross-site work

Interest in autonomous tech

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Terraform

Job description

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.

With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai

You will:

• Own the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of Waabi's multi-site network (switching, routing, wireless, firewall) across all locations.
• Lead ISP/bandwidth planning, ensuring redundant, appropriately sized throughput for all sites.
• Manage network incident response and root-cause analysis; implement on-call coverage, escalation paths, and documented runbooks to minimize resolution time.
• Audit and harden network configurations (loop protection, storm control, STP, MC-LAG peer health) across all sites.
• Define and enforce network hardware/firmware standards, replacing current ad-hoc per-site configurations.
• Maintain IP addressing, VLAN architecture, and workstation/server/security/guest segmentation.
• Evaluate and manage zero-trust remote access tooling (Tailscale, Cloudflare, Zscaler, etc.) to meet security and monitoring requirements.
• Support vehicle connectivity in partnership with Product Infrastructure and Fleet teams.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure reliable, fast developer-facing network paths.
• Scale our network to support high performing on-prem compute, storage clusters.
• Create and maintain network documentation, topology diagrams, and disaster-recovery/escalation runbooks.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of OSI model
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise switching, routing, and wireless platforms and lifecycle management.
• Experience operating firewalls, VPNs, and WAN optimization for multi‑site organizations.
• Familiarity with mesh/overlay VPN and zero‑trust tools.
• Experience with IPAM and VLAN design across multiple sites.
• Linux proficiency and IaC tooling experience (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform).
• Experience with network monitoring, observability, and building on‑call/incident‑response processes.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable leading postmortems and documenting technical/non‑technical findings.
• Collaborative, resourceful mindset with a willingness to own responsibilities across sites.
• Interest in self‑driving technology and scaling infrastructure.

Bonus

• Experience with in‑vehicle/industrial/OT networking and field hardware support.

The Canada salary range for this role is: $145,000 - $177,000 CAD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi Canada Inc.'s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company's compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all Canada locations. Note: The Company may provide additional compensation for employees in this role, including discretionary equity incentive awards and discretionary annual performance bonus.

Perks/Benefits

• 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!

Waabi is a technology start‑up building technologies to transform the way the world moves. Join our talented team to be a part of the future and to make an impact!

Waabi is an equal opportunity employer. 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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know.