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Executive Assistant

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Waabi

Waabi

51-200 employees

Develops self-driving technology for trucking

Automotive & Transportation
AI & Machine Learning

Senior

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

This is a hybrid position, which implies that the candidate will need to work in-office some days.

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Executive Support
Administrative & Executive Assistance
Administrative Support

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Requirements
  • 5-7+ years of administrative experience in a fast paced, high growth environment supporting C-Suite
  • Excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills
  • Adaptable to competing demands and able to balance setting boundaries for leads with being appreciative to the needs of your organization
  • Exceptional judgment and active foresight
  • Excellent calendar management and organization skills with experience using several systems/platforms to streamline meetings, team calendars, spreadsheets, presentations, onboarding and slack channels
  • Ability to adapt in a dynamic business environment, collaborate, and calmly handle stressful circumstances
  • Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion
  • Flexibility to perform job duties outside of normal business hours
  • Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others
  • Experience and excitement in supporting a fast-paced high-growth environment
  • Passionate about being part of an organization solving self-driving technologies
Responsibilities
  • Partner, collaborate and act as liaison for the leader you support
  • Assist in the prioritization of complex and dynamic calendars by proactively understanding requirements and setting, monitoring, and managing clear meeting agendas
  • Perform a variety of administrative tasks and provide professional support to two or more senior leaders
  • Arrange travel schedules, booking travel, managing reservations, and handling expenses
  • Cultivate and evolve Waabi’s culture by coordinating engaging events and celebrating essential team moments and milestones; including in office support as needed
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Waabi focuses on developing self-driving technology specifically for the trucking industry. Their main product, the Waabi Driver, is designed to learn from experiences and adapt to various driving scenarios and hardware setups. This technology aims for large-scale use and is intended for integration into vehicles by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Waabi stands out from competitors by utilizing an advanced simulation platform called Waabi World, which allows them to refine their self-driving systems without extensive real-world testing, thus saving costs and improving safety. The goal of Waabi is to transform the trucking industry by making it safer and more cost-effective through the widespread adoption of their autonomous driving technology.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$265.9M

Headquarters

Toronto, Canada

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Partnership with Volvo enhances Waabi's market position in autonomous trucking.
  • $200 million funding round shows strong investor confidence in Waabi's technology.
  • Opening of AV trucking terminal in Texas offers strategic growth opportunities.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from Tesla and Aurora may limit Waabi's market share.
  • Reliance on Nvidia hardware poses risks if supply chain issues arise.
  • High capital requirements for scaling could strain Waabi's financial resources.

What makes Waabi unique

  • Waabi uses advanced simulation technology, Waabi World, to reduce real-world testing needs.
  • The Waabi Driver adapts to new scenarios and geographies, enhancing flexibility.
  • Waabi's AI-first approach allows efficient reasoning, reducing data and computation needs.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

4%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

5%
FreightWaves
Feb 4th, 2025
Waabi And Volvo Autonomous Solutions Announce Partnership

Toronto-based autonomous truck technology maker Waabi announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous trucks. The partnership is twofold, combining Waabi’s innovations in generative AI with Volvo’s autonomous truck, the Volvo VNL Autonomous.The vertical integration comes in the form of integrating Waabi’s virtual driver system, the Waabi Driver, into the Volvo autonomous truck, which has redundant systems for safe autonomous operations. FreightWaves spoke with Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO of Waabi, about the partnership. The first thing to note is this is not a retrofit, but a vertical integration: These trucks will come off the factory line fully equipped and ready.“We don’t believe that retrofit is an option for that redundant platform; we believe that our technology, and any AV player for that matter, should be vertically integrated into a redundant platform that is purposefully built for self-driving,” said Urtasun. While Volvo handles the tractor, Waabi has been cooking up its Waabi Driver, part of the next generation of autonomous vehicle progression called AV 2.0. AV 2.0 and autonomous trucking’s Kitty Hawk momentThe best way to understand AV 2.0 and what that means for autonomous trucking is to first understand what AV 1.0 did.“If you look at the industry, there was a generation of technology, what we call AV 1.0, which is a more traditional approach that is some engineered systems where there is AI on them but AI plays a very secondary role,” said Urtasun.She adds that one way to imagine AV 1.0 is smaller AI models all over the place, but there’s a system managed by humans requiring large teams to develop, necessitating many miles to see the next set of edge cases that the system can’t handle. More miles, that is followed by building a bigger dataset, but it’s very capital-intensive and time-consuming, resembling a tedious iteration. The past two years brought about the next evolution, AV 2.0: “this idea of you can have a single AI system that can do all the tests necessary for driving,” adds Urtasun. A parallel that she notes is to imagine having a large language model (LLM) that can engineer a system, versus having to manually program it in the past.With great power comes great computing responsibility. One reason Nvidia has recently been in trucking news is that its computer hardware is powering the AV 2.0 renaissance

BetaKit
Feb 4th, 2025
Waabi Inks Partnership With Investor Volvo To Develop And Deploy Self-Driving Trucks

CEO says deal gives Waabi next puzzle piece it needs for autonomous trucking at scale

The Robot Report
Jul 29th, 2024
Autonomous Vehicles Fuel $2.7B Funding Boom In June 2024

Autonomous vehicles fuel $2.7B funding boom in June 2024. By Dan Kara | July 29, 2024Listen to this article. Forty-eight companies that make robots or relevant enabling technologies raised a total of $2.7 billion in June 2024. At press time, this was the highest monthly funding total of 2024. It exceeded May’s total by more than $500 million and was more than double the 12-month trailing investments average of $1.3 billion. Robotics investments for the first six months of 2024 totaled about $8.4 billion

NVIDIA
Jul 8th, 2024
In It for the Long Haul: Waabi Pioneers Generative AI to Unleash Fully Driverless Autonomous Trucking

Waabi is developing on NVIDIA DRIVE OS, the company's operating system for safe, AI-defined autonomous vehicles.

Startup Italia
Jun 18th, 2024
In Attesa Dei Robotaxi Di Tesla, La Startup Waabi Annuncia L’Arrivo Dei Camion A Guida Autonoma

Uno scenario ancora ricco di incognite. L'azienda canadese, fondata da una ex dipendente di Uber, partirà dal Texas con i primi veicoli smartWaabi, startup canadese, ha annunciato che dal 2025 introdurrà i suoi camion senza pilota sulle strade del Texas, Stato USA da tempo candidatosi ad accogliere le tech company che decidono di lasciare la California. Il panorama delle startup e scaleup impegnate sulla guida autonoma è vivace, nonostante qualche brusca frenata al business (si veda il caso di Cruise nel 2023). Uno degli ambiti in cui le self driving car stanno mostrando potenzialità non riguarda il trasporto di persone, bensì di merci. Camion a guida autonoma: le aziende impegnate. Non è la prima volta che su StartupItalia scriviamo di self driving truck: Aurora e Volvo sono al lavoro da tempo per mettere su strada questa tecnologia e Walmart testa furgoni smart per rifornire i propri supermercati

CNBC
Jun 18th, 2024
Uber, Khosla, Nvidia invest in $200 million funding round for autonomous trucking startup Waabi

Uber, Khosla, Nvidia invest in $200 million funding round for autonomous trucking startup Waabi.

TechCrunch
Jun 18th, 2024
Waabi’S Genai Promises To Do So Much More Than Power Self-Driving Trucks

For the last two decades, Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO of autonomous trucking startup Waabi, has been developing AI systems that can reason as a human would. The AI pioneer had previously served as the chief scientist at Uber ATG before launching Waabi in 2021. Waabi launched with an “AI-first approach” to speed up the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, starting with long-haul trucks. “If you can build systems that can actually do that, then suddenly you need much less data,” Urtasun told TechCrunch. “You need much less computation. If you’re able to do the reasoning in an efficient manner, you don’t need to have fleets of vehicles deployed everywhere in the world.” Building an AV stack with AI that perceives the world as a human might and reacts in real time is something Tesla has been attempting to do with its vision-first approach to self-driving. The difference, aside from Waabi’s comfort with using lidar sensors, is that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system uses “imitation learning” to learn how to drive. This requires Tesla to collect and analyze millions of videos of real-world driving situations that it uses to train its AI model. The Waabi Driver, on the other hand, has done most of its training, testing and validation using a closed-loop simulator called Waabi World that automatically builds digital twins of the world from data; performs real-time sensor simulation; manufactures scenarios to stress test the Waabi Driver; and teaches the Driver to learn from its mistakes without human intervention. In just four years, that simulator has helped Waabi launch commercial pilots (with a human driver in the front seat) in Texas, many of which are happening through a partnership with Uber Freight

Telematics Wire
May 1st, 2024
Waabi launches AV trucking terminal in Texas

Waabi launches AV trucking terminal in Texas.

CDL Life
Apr 30th, 2024
'Generative AI' self-driving truck company opens terminal near Dallas

On April 30, Waabi announced the opening of an eight-acre Autonomous Vehicle (AV) trucking terminal in Lancaster, Texas.

Telematics Wire
Mar 26th, 2024
Waabi teams up with NVIDIA for AI-powered autonomous trucking

TORONTO, MARCH 18, 2024 - Waabi, a Toronto-based company, is developing the next generation of self-driving trucks using artificial intelligence, announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to deliver the first generative AI-powered autonomous trucking solution to market.

BetaKit
Mar 25th, 2024
Waabi to use Nvidia chip to power autonomous trucking solution

Also this month, Waabi unveiled Copilot4D, a new AI model that can not only understand and operate in a 3D environment but also can learn and make decisions based on how objects move and change over time, in any setting, be it a computer-generated environment like Waabi World or the real world.