Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Waabi
Motion Planning
$158-269k
Offers equity and an annual performance bonus
AI powered self-driving technology
Open for applications
AI powered self-driving technology
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$158-269k
Offers equity and an annual performance bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring commercially viable self-driving technology to society.
Role
Who you are
- MS/PhD or Bachelor degree with a minimum of 4 years of industry experience in Computer Science, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study
- Experience in planning/decision making approaches (e.g., optimal control, optimization based approaches, search methods, probabilistic decision making)
- Production-quality coding skill in Python or C++
- Solid problem solving skills using linear algebra, geometry, statistics & probability
- Ability to rapidly prototype and test new algorithms
- Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others
- Able to maintain progress towards long-term goals while working on short-term problems
- Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions
Desirable
- Experience working in self-driving field
- Experience in optimization
What the job involves
- Design and develop motion planning software and algorithms, building the brain which orchestrates decision making in dynamic, uncertain and interactive traffic scenarios
- Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale
- Participate and share ideas in technical and architecture discussions, collaborating with researchers and engineers to build a reliable autonomy stack for self-driving vehicles
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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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2024
$200m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$71.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $271.6m
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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