Systems Engineer, Waabi
Platform Requirements and Verification
$133.2-266.2k
Plus equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus
AI powered self-driving technology
Open for applications
AI powered self-driving technology
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$133.2-266.2k
Plus equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring commercially viable self-driving technology to society.
Role
Who you are
- Undergrad required; Masters or PhD within an engineering discipline preferred
- 3+ years of automotive, robotics, aerospace or related industry experience
- Experience with requirements-specifications and metrics
- Experience with executing complex vehicle test campaigns
- Experience with methods and standards such as ISO 26262, SOTIF (ISO 21448) and / or UL 4600
- Strong fundamentals in mathematics, engineering and physics and basic understanding of vehicle dynamics
- Excellent data analysis skills with modern tools such as Python or Matlab
- Open-minded and collaborative leader who is eager to provide guidance and has the willingness to help others
- Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions
- Experience with vehicle actuation (brakes, steering, propulsion)
Desirable
- Experience in launching a driverless product
- Experience in leading small teams of systems engineers
- Experience in the automotive self driving industry
- Experience building software systems from scratch
- Experience in robotics or machine learning
- Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis
What the job involves
- Own the creation, documentation, alignment and verification of vehicle platform requirements at Waabi and define ways for how to describe and evaluate them efficiently and effectively
- Bring an in-depth understanding of sensors, compute and actuators used in self-driving vehicles and drive an architecture with requirements that generate a simple yet very safe highly autonomous vehicle platform
- Act as a central point of contact at Waabi for specific vehicle platform requirements and related tests and communicate updates, progress and potential roadblocks to stakeholders at all levels
- Help drive Waabi’s safety culture through application of safety standards and methodologies in your area of responsibility across all supporting teams at Waabi including Systems Engineering, Hardware and Software
- Define necessary improvements for our highly realistic simulator to effectively verify most vehicle platform aspects under all required conditions and work with other teams at Waabi to get these improvements designed and implemented
- Own the writing and tracking of tests and test executions in line with company project milestones
- Continuously evaluate and enhance Waabi’s vehicle platform capabilities, look for novel approaches, identify and apply lessons learned and ensure a detailed and comprehensive documentation that is easily accessible
- Implement tools and methodologies to streamline and automate the vehicle platform requirement processes where applicable
- Work with external partners on delivering a safe vehicle platform that has been verified and validated to support a strong safety case for the complete self-driving system
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2024
$200m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$69.4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $269.4m
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
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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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