# Senior / Staff ML Ops Engineer at Waabi

- Company: Waabi
- What the company does: Transform your supply chain with Waabi’s AI-first autonomous trucking solution. Scale freight operations, improve safety, and boost efficiency. Learn more. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://waabi.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote US & Canada
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $184K to $272K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/waabi/1c01bf84-38e3-42db-990c-29c9195443ba
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/waabi-senior-staff-ml-ops-engineer/

## About the role

The US yearly salary range for this role is: $184,000 - $272,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi (US) Inc.’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of software or infrastructure engineering, including tools or platforms used by other engineers and operating ML or data-intensive production systems
- Hands-on Kubernetes expertise — GPU scheduling, autoscaling, Helm or equivalent, networking fundamentals, and the ability to debug a cluster under load rather than restart it
- Excellent Python, and a track record of designing APIs and CLIs other people enjoy using
- Distributed training in PyTorch (DDP, FSDP, or similar), plus experiment tracking and model registry tooling — from the perspective of someone who made them pleasant for others to use
- Fluency with containers, CI/CD, and modern build systems, including large monorepos
- The ability to influence without authority: evaluate a framework on its merits, pilot it credibly, and persuade skeptical senior engineers to change how they work

Tags: Software Engineering