# Senior / Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Vehicle Dynamics

You Will… Design and develop data-driven and machine-learned approaches to vehicle control problems, bringing modern ML to a domain traditionally solved with classical methods. Develop learned models of vehicle behavior and dynamics, and integrate them into the closed-loop simulation. Apply machine learning to improve how the controller adapts across vehicles and operating conditions. Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale. Own problems end to end, from conceptualization and offline experimentation through simulation and on-vehicle validation. Build the data pipelines, evaluation metrics, and tooling needed to measure whether a learned approach outperforms the classical baseline. Participate and share ideas in technical and architecture discussions, helping define how learning and classical control coexist in a safety-critical stack. Qualifications: MS/PhD or Bachelors degree with a minimum of 4 years of industry experience in Robotics, Controls, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and/or similar technical field(s) of study. Demonstrated depth in control theory

- **Id**: 1048646
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/waabi-senior-staff-software-engineer-ml-based-controls>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Dallas, United States, Pittsburgh, United States, Phoenix, United States, Toronto, Canada, Canada
- **Countries**: US, CA
- **Hiring countries**: US, CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 2
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-03T16:53:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T22:46:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 69
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1964
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Autonomous Driving

## Company

- **Id**: 4483
- **Name**: Waabi
- **Domain**: waabi.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/waabi>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 56
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.393
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 221000
- **Max usd**: 417000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 197

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 68

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T22:59:57Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 9; Filings 12m: 9

## Liveness

- **Score**: 43
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.715
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 68
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:late, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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