Senior/Staff Software Engineer – AI Tooling

About the role

Waabi is building an AI Technical Strike Team to establish best practices for AI across the company. As a senior software engineer on this team you will design, build, and ship internal tools, agents, and workflows that boost productivity for every team, from autonomy codebases to business functions.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship custom internal tooling, agents, and workflows supporting autonomy code, simulation, ML pipelines, and research.
• Integrate and extend third‑party AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, creating configurations and extensions for Waabi.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools and models, run pilots, and provide recommendations for build‑vs‑buy decisions.
• Partner with engineers, researchers, and business teams to prototype solutions, iterate based on usage, and drive adoption.
• Implement observability for AI tooling—tracking usage, cost, and quality—and establish responsible AI guardrails.

Required profile

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping tools or platforms used by large user bases.
• Hands‑on experience with current AI coding tools and agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex) and building AI‑powered products.
• Strong product instincts, ability to identify high‑leverage problems, and deliver solutions that get adopted.

Required skills

• Python
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• GitHub Copilot
• CI/CD pipelines
• Modern build systems
• Developer infrastructure