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Platform Systems Engineer; Motion Planning and Control

Waabi· Systems Engineering
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Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ / San Francisco, CA / Pittsburgh, PA)$147.9k - $291.6kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Platform Systems Engineer focused on motion planning, motion control, and vehicle dynamics for autonomous vehicles, owning requirements development and verification.

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.

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 (i.e. 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 (including correlated errors).
  • 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).

Skills

Required:Motion planningMotion controlVehicle Dynamics (VD)Systems EngineeringPython

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and Wellness benefits that include Medical, Vision and Dental coverage.
  • 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.
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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