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Fleet Specialist - Day Shift

Waabi· Operations – Road Operations
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Lancaster, TXFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Waabi is hiring a Fleet Specialist for day shift in Dallas, TX. The role is the right-seat software operator for the autonomous system, ensuring vehicle readiness, monitoring on-road behavior, and documenting and communicating findings to engineers. On day shift you work with engineering, triage, and mapping partners to support high-volume missions.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare vehicle systems for manual and autonomous missions: verify the AV release, map name and version, and vehicle compute and controller firmware, update and launch the mission container configuration, and confirm trailer weight and load ID.
  • Send, launch, hold, and end missions in the Waabi App, Jira, and the Linux terminal, and confirm mission data has been offloaded before closing out a mission.
  • Monitor vehicle and autonomy system status from the front right seat, including Foxglove visualizations, and relay system state and upcoming vehicle intent to the Vehicle Operator.
  • Call for a disengagement whenever system information cannot be relayed quickly enough to keep the maneuver safe.
  • Annotate on-road events with specific, descriptive context and categorize disengagements under Waabi’s Safety Risk, Stranding Risk, and Reputational Risk framework.
  • Track and report mission performance including takeovers, dropouts, troubleshooting, and delays, maintaining the standard mission thread format.
  • Complete AV stack pre-trip and post-trip documentation with close-up sensor and hardware photography, and escalate hardware conditions that were not resolved on the prior shift.
  • Manage data drives: check out the required number for the mission profile plus contingency, verify each drive connects, and confirm logs are offloaded.
  • Execute periodic calibration and static validation collects to procedure and document them to the standard template.
  • Check conditions against the Operational Design Domain and verify with Dispatch before engaging or re-engaging near a policy limit.
  • Serve as spotter for backing maneuvers, apply Get Out And Look (G.O.A.L.), and work in parallel with the Vehicle Operator on inspection and hook-up so the crew makes gate time.
  • The role requires the ability to move around, under, alongside, and climb on a Class 8 tractor and trailer on scaffolding, stairs, and/or ladder to inspect and photograph sensors and hardware, and to handle data drives and cabling.
  • Post accurate, timely shift status in Slack, maintain 5-S standards in the bays and garage, and brief Vehicle Operators on software and truck behavior changes before each mission.

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalent required.
  • Prior experience in a related operations, logistics, technical support, or vehicle testing role preferred.
  • Technical aptitude is central to this role. Comfort working at a command line — container logs, device resets, fault handling — and an interest in understanding the compute and sensor systems on the truck.
  • Strong written communication and a high standard for documentation.
  • Strong attention to detail and the ability to follow a procedure exactly under time pressure.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, frequently changing environment where priorities and schedules move.
  • Able and willing to work the day shift described below, including flexible start and end times and extended, potentially consecutive shifts of up to approximately 14 hours (following DOT regulations), plus weekend, holiday, and occasional overnight travel.
  • Ability to travel to support out-of-area missions, scouting, and testing.
  • Basic computer skills and the ability to learn Waabi’s mission, fleet, and inspection tooling quickly.
  • Passion for self-driving technology and problem solving.
  • Previous autonomous vehicle, robotics, or vehicle testing experience, troubleshooting computer, network, or embedded systems, and prior shift-based or 24/7 operation experience are strong plus.
  • Enhanced Pre-trip Inspector (EIP) certification, or interest in becoming certified, is a plus.

Skills

Required:Vehicle operations and mission managementCommand line and diagnostic toolingDocumentation and communication

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and wellness benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • Paid parental, medical and family care leave.
  • Generous PTO Policy
  • Retirement savings plans including 401(k) or RRSP options.
  • Health savings account contribution options.
  • Daily drinks, snacks, and catered meals (when in office).
  • Regular team building activities and social events on-site, off-site & virtually.
  • Additional country-specific benefits.
  • As we grow, benefits list continues to evolve.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Waabi

pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks.

Waabi is pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks. We developed a next-generation approach leveraging an end-to-end interpretable and verifiable AI model that’s powered by the industry's most realistic neural simulator. This dramatically reduces the development time and resources needed to bring self-driving vehicles to public roads — safely and at scale.

Autonomous trucksPhysical AIneural simulatorAI modelself-driving vehicles
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