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Senior / Staff Electrical Engineer

Waabi· Hardware – Embedded Systems
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Pittsburgh, PA, San Francisco, CA$147k - $250kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Waabi is hiring a Senior / Staff Electrical Engineer to own hardware from schematic to vehicle, designing boards, coordinating with contract manufacturers, bringing hardware up in the lab, and ensuring design quality through test fixtures and V&V. On-site role based in Pittsburgh/San Francisco with 3-4 days onsite.

Responsibilities

  • Design PCBAs across high-speed, power, analog, and digital circuits
  • Translate OEM technical and non-functional requirements into board-level design decisions
  • Take modules from requirements through customer delivery
  • Develop new modules or features, weighing COTS versus custom hardware
  • Verify circuit designs with SPICE or equivalent
  • Own board bring-up at scale and direct technician work
  • Debug and solder at the component level using scopes, signal generators, DMMs, and other lab equipment
  • Support vehicle end-of-line testing by diagnosing board- and vehicle-level issues
  • Build module end-of-line test fixtures and load boxes with the design and V&V teams
  • Test designs under nominal and stressed electrical and environmental conditions
  • Support EMI/EMC testing and qualification
  • Manage CM builds from fabrication through assembly, tracking schedules and flagging risks early
  • Scale hardware from low-volume prototypes to reliable high-volume production
  • Develop quality controls and in-process monitors with the quality team
  • Lead incoming inspection, rework, hand assembly, and enclosure integration with technicians
  • Ensure compliance with OEM partner and internal quality standards
  • Track components, boards, and assemblies: what's on hand, in transit, and due for reorder
  • Work closely with systems, firmware, mechanical, V&V, bring-up, and quality teams
  • Document procedures, test results, design revisions, and performance data for traceability
  • Define and improve internal processes and quality standards

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or a related field
  • 10+ years in hardware development. Some experience with test engineering is beneficial
  • 2–3+ years in a formal leadership role
  • Analog circuit design from first principles, including filtering, protection, and voltage/current sensing
  • Familiarity with ECAD tools (e.g. Altium, OrCAD, KiCAD)
  • Sound judgment on component and topology tradeoffs
  • Hands-on experience debugging circuit-level functionality
  • Experience partnering with CMs to deliver high-quality products
  • Ability to read schematics, board layouts, engineering drawings, and technical documentation
  • Familiarity with communication interfaces (CAN, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, LIN, USB, UART, JTAG/SWD)
  • Familiarity with automotive standards (ISO 26262, ISO 16750, AEC-Q)
  • Experience with firmware testing and debug, scripting, and embedded Linux
  • Comfortable switching between hands-on lab work and roadmap planning
  • Nice to have: automotive, robotics, or AV experience

Skills

Required:PCB designECAD toolsAnalog circuit designCM collaboration
Nice to have:EMI/EMC testing

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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