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Electrical Engineering Team Lead

Waabi· Hardware – Embedded Systems
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Pittsburgh, PA)$185k - $270kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead the electrical engineering team responsible for Waabi's custom electronics, guiding prototypes to production while ensuring scalability, manufacturability, and automotive safety standards.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team. Guide and mentor a group of electrical engineers working on high-performance embedded compute and robust power distribution. Set technical direction and help people do the best work of their careers.
  • Design for scale. Drive Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Testability (DFT) across every hardware iteration, moving from prototype toward zero-defect mass production.
  • Own the CM relationship. Serve as the primary technical interface with our contract manufacturers — running NPI (New Product Introduction) cycles, conducting line audits, and clearing production bottlenecks.
  • Partner with our OEMs. Be the technical face of Waabi to our OEM partners, translating their supplier requirements into engineering specifications and making sure our hardware integrates cleanly into their vehicle platforms.
  • Uphold functional safety and quality. Ensure electrical systems meet automotive standards such as ISO 26262 and AEC-Q100, and maintain a roadmap for long-term reliability in the field.

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • 10+ years in hardware development, including time leading or mentoring engineers. (Formal management experience is a plus, not a prerequisite — we care that you can grow a team.)
  • Deep experience with complex PCB design, high-speed signaling, and the thermal challenges of AV compute platforms.
  • A strong grasp of power distribution and DC-DC conversion for high-performance compute and sensor loads, plus a clear understanding of how that hardware interfaces with the vehicle's power architecture.
  • Fluency with the automotive production world — you know PPAP, APQP, and what automotive-grade reliability actually demands.

Skills

Required:Electrical engineering leadershipPCB designPower distribution and DC-DC conversionAutomotive standards (ISO 26262, AEC-Q100)

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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