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Platform Systems Engineer; Sensing and Perception, Maps and Localization

Waabi· Platform Systems Engineering
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Hybrid (Phoenix, AZ), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Pittsburgh, PA)$147.9k - $291.6kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Platform Systems Engineer focused on Sensing, Perception, Maps, and Localization within Waabi's Platform team. On-site role across multiple locations (Phoenix, AZ; San Francisco, CA; Pittsburgh, PA) requiring end-to-end systems engineering, cross-functional collaboration, and safety-focused development for autonomous vehicle sensing and localization pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Drive Technical Execution: Lead the end-to-end systems engineering lifecycle for the Sensing, Perception, Maps, and Localization domains, ensuring timely delivery of robust solutions across hardware and software teams.
  • Architect Requirements: Create and refine Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Requirements using analytical and numerical methods, focusing on sensing capabilities, perception performance, sensor fusion, mapping, and pose estimation.
  • Own the Contract: Own the definition and requirements development of the Sensing, Perception, and Localization contracts, covering sensor performance, calibration, data quality, and system degradation strategies.
  • Lead Cross-Functional Integration: Act as the primary technical liaison connecting AI and software engineers, hardware engineers, and safety teams to resolve complex system-level bottlenecks and build consensus on architectural trade-offs.
  • Validate via Data: Create methods and use physical and simulated data to inform and verify principled requirements for the entire sensor suite and localization pipeline.
  • Advance Simulation: Improve the simulation and synthetic data generation of sensor models for AVs.
  • Build the Safety Case: Directly contribute to the system safety case by mapping high-level safety goals to deployed architecture, ensuring traceability from requirements through to verification and validation (V&V).
  • Elevate the Team: Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of rigorous systems engineering, proactive risk management, and flawless execution within the Platform team.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of industry experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or aerospace, with a proven track record of taking complex autonomous systems from R&D to deployment.
  • Strong foundation in AV systems, specifically in sensing (Lidar, Radar, Camera), perception algorithms, sensor fusion, mapping, and localization (e.g., GNSS/INS, SLAM, odometry).
  • Technical Breadth: Deep knowledge of sensor physics, signal processing, data acquisition/management, and dealing with correlated system errors.
  • Systems Rigor: Expert knowledge of Systems Engineering and Verification & Validation (V&V) best practices, including requirements decomposition from high-level safety goals into detailed, verifiable functional and technical specs for Level 4 AV systems.
  • Safety Standards: Working knowledge of functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262) and translating probabilistic safety goals into physical, quantifiable metrics.
  • Programming: Comprehensive coding skills in Python, C++, or other common programming languages used for data analysis and systems modeling.
  • Simulation & Modeling: Extensive experience in sensor simulation, error modeling, and perception/localization requirements development.
  • Communication: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to distill complex technical risks into actionable decisions for leadership.

Skills

Required:Sensing (Lidar, Radar, Camera)Perception AlgorithmsSensor FusionMapping & LocalizationSystems Engineering & V&VProgrammingCommunication
Nice to have:Safety Standards (ISO 26262)

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.
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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