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Applied Scientist

Waabi· Software – Autonomy & Algorithms
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Hybrid (Toronto, SF, Pittsburgh, Remote)$128k - $184kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Hands-on Applied Data Scientist role at Waabi focusing on unified evaluation of autonomous driving systems across simulation, track, and public road testing, with cross-modal dashboards and automated reporting to support KPIs across Safety, Autonomy, Evaluation, and Data Platform teams.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide comprehensive analysis on autonomy system performance across Waabi World (Simulation), Track, and Public Road testing.
  • Develop and maintain sophisticated, cross-modal dashboards that provide a unified and trustworthy view of the performance of our systems, tracking progress toward critical company milestones.
  • Partner with Data Platform and Evaluation teams to shape the evolution of eval tooling and pipelines, ensuring infrastructure remains scalable, automated, and capable of validating complex system requirements across all testing modalities.
  • Act as a key partner to Safety and Autonomy teams, ensuring that automated reporting faithfully captures the technical intent and requirements of system KPIs.
  • Proactively monitor and investigate anomalies in metrics to ensure stakeholders make decisions based on reliable, high-fidelity data.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 3+ years of professional experience in an analytical role (e.g., Data Science, Systems Evaluation, or Product Analytics).
  • BS/MS in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Physics, or similar.
  • Strong command of SQL, and familiarity with Python for data manipulation and prototyping.
  • Experience building clear, automated dashboards using modern BI tools or custom frameworks.
  • Experience working with internal cross-functional partners/stakeholders.
  • Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
  • Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.

Skills

Required:SQLPythonDashboarding/BICross-functional collaboration

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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