Fleet Specialist

Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.   With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai

Waabi is building generative AI for the physical world, starting with autonomous trucks. Our Texas road operations run both R&D testing and revenue freight out of our Lancaster terminal, and day shift is the core of that operation.

The Fleet Specialist is Waabi’s right-seat software operator: the person who makes the autonomous system ready to run, watches how it behaves in the real world, and turns what happens on the road into information our engineers can act on. On day shift you work at the highest mission volume we run, with engineering, triage, and mapping partners on shift alongside you. This role suits someone genuinely curious about how the system works, who works a problem thoroughly before escalating and knows when escalating is the right call, and who documents well enough that the next shift and the development teams can pick up exactly where you left off.

You will…

• Prepare vehicle systems for manual and autonomous missions: verify the AV release, map name and version, and vehicle compute and controller firmware, update and launch the mission container configuration, and confirm trailer weight and load ID.
• Send, launch, hold, and end missions in the Waabi App, Jira, and the Linux terminal, and confirm mission data has been offloaded before closing out a mission.
• Monitor vehicle and autonomy system status from the front right seat, including Foxglove visualizations, and relay system state and upcoming vehicle intent to the Vehicle Operator.
• Call for a disengagement whenever system information cannot be relayed quickly enough to keep the maneuver safe. Every crew member is empowered to make that call.
• Annotate on-road events with specific, descriptive context and categorize disengagements under Waabi’s Safety Risk, Stranding Risk, and Reputational Risk framework.
• Track and report mission performance including takeovers, dropouts, troubleshooting, and delays, maintaining the standard mission thread format.
• Complete AV stack pre-trip and post-trip documentation with close-up sensor and hardware photography, and escalate hardware conditions that were not resolved on the prior shift.
• Manage data drives: check out the required number for the mission profile plus contingency, verify each drive connects, and confirm logs are offloaded.