Senior Software Engineer, Waabi

Perception and Prediction

$158-269k

The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus

Python
C++
Rust
CUDA
PyTorch
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada, US
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto
Waabi

AI powered self-driving technology

Open for applications

Waabi

AI powered self-driving technology

101-200 employees

B2BTravelCarsAugmented RealitySaaS

Open for applications

$158-269k

The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus

Python
C++
Rust
CUDA
PyTorch
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada, US
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto

101-200 employees

B2BTravelCarsAugmented RealitySaaS

Company mission

To bring commercially viable self-driving technology to society.

Role

Who you are

  • MS/PhD or Bachelors degree with a minimum of 4 years of industry experience in computer science, engineering, or a related field
  • Proficient in Python programming and strong software engineering fundamentals with real-world experience writing high quality, well-structured, and well-tested code
  • Previous experience with ML pipelines, including dataset curation, labelling, training and evaluation
  • Solid understanding of computing fundamentals, including code efficiency
  • Experience with concurrent, parallel, and distributed computing techniques for efficient computation
  • Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others
  • Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions
  • Familiar with linear algebra (projections, transforms) and 3D geometry

Desirable

  • Previous experience in self-driving technology or related fields
  • Previous experience in working with multimodal sensor data (e.g. LiDAR, RADAR, camera)
  • Experience in working with platform teams and collaborating with research teams to implement and validate deep learning models
  • Understanding of cloud job orchestration, monitoring, and instrumentation best-practices
  • Proficiency in Pytorch, Rust, C++ and/or CUDA

What the job involves

  • Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team solving problems related to perception, motion forecasting, planning, traffic modeling and sensor simulation, delivering new capabilities that improve the performance of our machine learning systems
  • Design and implement data pipelines from various sources including real world driving and Waabi World, our high-fidelity simulator, to train deep learning models
  • Streamline training, evaluation, and deployment workflows of our production models
  • Evaluate model performance and prototype solutions for regressions in long-tail scenarios
  • Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well structured and tested code
  • Participate in roadmap ideation, planning, and prioritization

Our take

Autonomous vehicle technology is rapidly developing and many sectors are recognising its value. However, whilst the self-driving industry has made significant advancements there is much more that can be done. There are challenges in this space surrounding scale and developing commercially viable self-driving technology.

Waabi hopes to tackle these challenges and be the leader in self-driving technology with their "AI first approach". The company said that combined with a closed-loop simulator, this approach will allow both common driving scenarios and safety-critical edge cases to be tested at scale - solving one of the key issues in the industry.

Waabi successfully raised one of the largest Series A rounds ever raised in Canada, and has gone on to raise fresh Volvo and Uber-led funding in early 2024. While the company's focus is currently on autonomous long-haul trucking (launching its first generation of trucks in November 2022), the company is well set to lead the next generation of self-driving technology.

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Kirsty

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

81% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jun 2024

$200m

SERIES B

Jun 2021

$73.7m

SERIES A

Total funding: $273.7m

Company benefits

  • Equity awards
  • Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only)
  • Unlimited Vacation
  • Flexible hours and Work from Home support
  • Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually
  • Annual performance bonus

Company HQ

Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON

Leadership

Raquel Urtasun

(CEO)

Previously worked at Uber as Chief Scientist, Head of Uber ATG R&D. Is also a professor at the University of Toronto.

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