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How Waabi hires

Truth index
A 92/100
Median time to fill
150 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
13%
Reposted roles
0%

Waabi scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 69 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 13% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 150 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

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Overview

Waabi is an artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicle technology company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2021. The company develops an end-to-end artificial intelligence software platform, known as the Waabi Driver, and a simulation environment called Waabi World to power autonomous trucks and robotaxis. It operates primarily in the North American logistics and transportation sectors through strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Volvo, Uber Freight, and NVIDIA.

News

News FreightWaves 3 months ago
Waabi proves autonomous truck generalization with Volvo Autonomous Solutions
Waabi's self-driving AI drove a Volvo VNL Autonomous truck safely with zero retraining, proving autonomous truck generalization is real.
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EXPO NEWS: And the winners are...
Waymo, Waabi, Volvo, Wayve, Euro NCAP and Parallel Domain are the winners of the second ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International Awards, recognizing industry innovation in vehicle safety and automated driving.
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News Fortune 4 months ago
The 'AI superstar' CEO behind a self-driving truck unicorn on why she'd rather hire Gen Z making the 'AI-first' transformation than industry veterans
Raquel Urtasun, founder of autonomous truck startup Waabi, talks to Fortune about unicorn hiring in the AI age:
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News BetaKit's Most Ambitious 2026 5 months ago
Waabi BetaKit Most Ambitious 2026
Waabi is developing physical AI models to operate self-driving trucks and robotaxis.
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News Autonocast 7 months ago
#359: Waabi w/Founder + CEO Raquel Urtasun
Fresh off a $1B Series C, Waabi Founder/CEO Raquel Urtasun joins us to answer key questions: Is $1B enough to develop both robotaxis and autonomous trucks? Who is building Waabi
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News spectrum.ieee.org 7 months ago
How Waabi's AI Is Changing Autonomous Trucking
Waabi's AI-powered trucks are navigating complex local streets without human drivers, aiming for a slice of a $600 billion market.
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News CNBC 9 months ago
Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raises $750 million to expand into robotaxis
Khosla Ventures, G2 Venture Partners, Uber, Nvidia and Volvo are all investing in the Toronto-based, driverless tech startup.
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News TechCrunch 9 months ago
Waabi raises $1B and expands into robotaxis with Uber
Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform.
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News FreightWaves 9 months ago
Beyond the highway: Waabi's bet on door-to-door autonomy
Lior Ron details why point-to-point operations, OEM-blessed hardware and rapid AI advances pave the way to future deployments Waabi bets on door-to-door autonomous trucks over highway-only models. COO Lior Ron explains why point-to-point operations, gener
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Waabi over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
128
Postings analysed
61
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python64%
C++30%
Rust25%
Bash10%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch20%
JAX7%
PyTorch C++7%
TensorFlow7%
Databases
PostgreSQL2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux26%
AWS16%
GCP10%
Windows8%
AI & ML
Claude7%
Gaussian Splatting5%
LLM5%
ChatGPT3%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$190k
Typical range
$135k – $260k
Open positions
7
6 Jobs
Senior 66.7%
Staff 16.7%
Architect 16.7%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 4 $170k $135k – $260k
Staff 1 $250k $250k
Architect 1 $260k $260k
Highest paying role Director, Fleet Solutions $260k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Waabi By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
87
16 opened / 9 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
118 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Field & Service
19% ▼
DevOps
11% ▼
AI/ML
10% ▲
Operations
10% ▲
Industrial Engineering
10% ▼
Hardware
8% ▼
Actively hiring for Operations (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Canada Oct 2026
Added Outlook to stack Oct 2026
Added SLURM to stack Sep 2026
Added Pulumi to stack Sep 2026
Added NCCL to stack Sep 2026
Added IAM to stack Sep 2026
Added Helm to stack Sep 2026
Added FSDP to stack Sep 2026
Added Flyte to stack Sep 2026
Added Physical AI to stack Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
5
Countries
2
Busiest office
Toronto
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Toronto Canada
HQ
44 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $255k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Robotics
seen since May 2021 job postings
San Francisco United States
Engineering / R&D
54 open roles 25 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $197k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Hardware
seen since May 2021 job postings
Pittsburgh United States
Plant / site
51 open roles 31 posted in 90 days 61% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $255k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Hardware
seen since Apr 2023 job postings
Dallas United States
Sales office
37 open roles 25 posted in 90 days 35% engineering 200-500 est. staff $260k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, AI/ML, Operations
seen since Apr 2023 job postings
Phoenix United States
Engineering / R&D
17 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 76% engineering 50-200 est. staff $260k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Robotics, Backend
seen since Apr 2023 job postings

Jobs

≈ $130k – $266k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Toronto • San Francisco
CUDA Toolkit
Quantization
Knowledge Distillation
Diffusion Models
ONNX
TensorRT
PyTorch
CUDA
Triton
Post-training
Model Distillation
DevOps
GCP
AWS
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≈ $218k – $400k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Asana
Jira
Apply
≈ $226k – $415k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • San Francisco • Pittsburgh • Toronto
Apply
$115k – $135k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Okta
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Microsoft Entra ID
Management
Jira
Google Workspace
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≈ $249k – $509k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco • Dallas • Pittsburgh • Phoenix • Toronto
Python
Multimodal AI
Kubeflow
PyTorch
Ray
FSDP
Flyte
NCCL
DevOps
Terraform
Helm
Pulumi
SLURM
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Bazel
Argo Workflows
IAM
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≈ $83k – $159k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Toronto
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Debian
Ubuntu
CentOS Stream
Linux
Windows
TCP/IP
DNS
DHCP
VPN
VLAN
Cybersecurity
Okta
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Microsoft Entra ID
Management
Jira
Google Workspace
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≈ $70k – $147k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto
TypeScript
Machine Learning
Management
Agile
Scrum
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≈ $144k – $240k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Toronto • San Francisco
Python
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
OpenAI Codex
LLM Guardrails
Tool Use
DevOps
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
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≈ $83k – $155k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Toronto • Dallas • Pittsburgh
Terraform
Puppet
Ansible
Chef
Cloudflare
Linux
VPN
VLAN
Cybersecurity
Zscaler
Zero Trust
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≈ $250k – $512k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco • Dallas • Pittsburgh • Phoenix • Toronto
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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≈ $80k – $143k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Canada
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
Design
Figma
SpaceTech
QGIS
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≈ $113k – $221k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Pittsburgh • San Francisco
Python
Rust
C++
Assembly
MATLAB
PyQt
MATLAB
Simulink
DevOps
RTOS
Linux
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Financials

Total raised
$1.2B
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series C 2026 $1B Details
Series B 2024 $200M Details