Waypoint is on a mission to automate urban planning, enabling cities to rapidly design in ways that are sustainable, resilient, and human-centric. Most U.S. cities rely heavily on consultants for planning documents. But if you take a closer look at where most of the hours are spent, you find planners and engineers repeatedly performing manual data entry, manipulation, and visualization. Despite nationwide similarities across studies, consulting firms haven't significantly improved their efficiency. We believe AI can automate many of these repetitive workflows, reducing costs and expanding city capacity.
We’re well-funded, growing rapidly, and already working with multiple cities. As our first hire, you’ll work closely with both founders.
We’re looking for a high-performing, ambitious individual with strong attention to detail.
As our first engineering hire (besides us), you'll help define our engineering systems from scratch. Example projects include:
This role is in-person and in San Francisco. Please note that as an early-stage startup, we often end up working nights and weekends.
Waypoint Transit is an AI city planner that generates civil infrastructure studies. Cities spend $50B/year on planning. With Waypoint, cities can generate reports in months rather than years, and at 30% of the cost.
Varun and Ryan met at Stanford, where they graduated with degrees in CS and EE respectively. Before founding Waypoint, Varun worked on AI at Microsoft and Ryan worked on chip design at Apple.
US cities are facing three major crises: congestion, budget deficits, and climate change. At the same time, city governments are understaffed and frequently need to contract work out to expensive consultants. Leveraging recent advancements in AI, we empower cities to reduce their costs, build infrastructure, and respond to problems quickly.
In the United States, state and local governments spend $50B/year on planning. Through automation, we can redefine the existing transportation and urban planning consulting markets.
For more information, visit waypointtransit.com or contact us at [email protected].
Salary
$120,000 - $170,000
Equity
0.5% - 3%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
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