Autonomous Vehicle Platform Engineer — Flexible Hours & Remote

Waabi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity awards

Health and Wellness benefits

Unlimited Vacation

Flexible hours

Work from Home support

Catered meals

Team building activities

Job summary

Waabi is seeking a highly skilled engineer to define AV requirements across motion planning, motion control and vehicle dynamics for Level 4 autonomous systems. You will decompose high‑level safety goals into detailed, verifiable requirements and own related contracts, using both physical and simulated data to validate performance.

Strong background in AV motion planning, control, VD, and low‑level actuation is required, along with experience in VD simulation and V&V practices.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in AV systems in motion planning, motion control and VD and low level actuator control.
• Strong physics and control systems knowledge.
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering and Verification and Validation (V&V) best practices.
• Knowledge of functional safety standards (ISO 26262).
• Comprehensive coding skills in Python, or other common programming languages.
• Risk modeling, translating probabilistic safety goals into physical metrics, and quantifying system uncertainty.
• Requirements decomposition from high-level safety goals into detailed, verifiable functional and technical requirements for a Level 4 AV system.
• Experience in VD simulation (use) and VD tools development (build).

Responsibilities

• Create Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Requirements using analytical and numerical methods, with focus on motion planning, motion control and Vehicle Dynamics (VD).
• Own the definition and requirements development of the Motion Planning, Motion Control and low level vehicle control contract.
• Create methods and use physical and simulated data to inform and verify principled requirements
• Advance VD simulation in AVs.

Skills

Motion planning

Motion control

Vehicle dynamics

Python programming

Systems engineering

Verification and validation

Functional safety ISO 26262

Requirements decomposition

VD simulation

Rust

C++

Tools

Python

Rust

Job description

Waabi is seeking a highly skilled engineer to define AV requirements across motion planning, motion control and vehicle dynamics for Level 4 autonomous systems. You will decompose high‑level safety goals into detailed, verifiable requirements and own related contracts, using both physical and simulated data to validate performance.

Strong background in AV motion planning, control, VD, and low‑level actuation is required, along with experience in VD simulation and V&V practices.