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Research Engineer

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- Bachelor's in computer science, engineering, machine learning, or a related technical discipline. - Experience working on applied research projects.

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Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.

With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai

As a Research Engineer, you will be at the forefront of advancing and deploying artificial intelligence algorithms for our self-driving vehicles. You will work closely with our team of world-renowned scientists and engineers specializing in deep learning, computer vision, and self-driving technologies to develop cutting-edge solutions that enable our vehicles to understand and navigate the world around them. We value originality, innovation, and a commitment to rigorous experimental validation and code quality as we strive to bring research ideas into production and push the boundaries of self-driving technology. Senior engineers are welcome to apply.

You will...

- Prototype, evaluate, and iterate on solutions, using real-world data and simulations, to improve the accuracy, robustness, and safety of our self-driving algorithms.

- Formulate problems and propose pragmatic and long-term solutions based on research insights, leveraging your expertise in deep learning, computer vision, and self-driving technologies.

- Support deploying solutions to our production systems, collaborating closely with platform teams to ensure seamless integration of research findings into our self-driving system.

- Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well structured and tested code.

- Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team solving problems related to perception, motion forecasting, planning, traffic modeling and sensor simulation, integrating research findings into our self-driving system and contributing to the development of a unified self-driving platform.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and self-driving technologies, and apply insights from the literature.

- Work with large datasets from various sources as well as Waabi World, our high-fidelity simulator.

- Contribute to the publication of research findings in conferences as well as Waabi's blog.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's in computer science, engineering, machine learning, or a related technical discipline.

- Experience working on applied research projects.

- Passion for taking research ideas and turning them into practical solutions for real-world applications.

- Solid understanding of computing fundamentals, including code efficiency.

- Proficient in Python programming with a focus on writing high-quality, well-structured, and tested code.

- Comfortable working with large datasets for machine learning applications.

Bonus/nice to have:

- Master/PhD in machine learning, computer science, engineering, or a related field.

- Experience in shipping machine learning features/models into production.

- Strong grasp of machine learning literature, including current trends and state-of-the-art techniques.

- Previous experience in self-driving technology or related fields.

- Publications in top-tier conferences or journals related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, or self-driving technology.

- Experience in working with platform teams and collaborating with research teams to implement and validate deep learning models.

- Solid experience with concurrent, parallel, and distributed computing techniques for efficient computation.

- Proficiency in Pytorch, Rust, C++ and/or CUDA.

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Posted: June 13, 2024
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: April 24, 2026

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Waabi is an AI company developing generative AI-powered autonomous driving technology for long-haul trucking, aiming for commercial deployment in 2025.

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