Senior or Staff Perception Engineer
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Waabi is a Physical AI company developing autonomous-driving technology for commercial trucking and robotaxis.
Toronto, Canada
About Waabi
Founded in 2021 by Raquel Urtasun, Waabi builds a Physical AI platform combining a verifiable end-to-end AI model with neural simulation. Its Waabi Driver and Waabi World technologies support autonomous trucking and robotaxi development.
Skills
About the Role
You will prototype, evaluate, and improve perception algorithms using real-world data and simulations. You will support production deployment, write high-quality tested code, collaborate on self-driving systems, work with large datasets and a high-fidelity simulator, and contribute research publications.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of industry experience, or an MS/PhD, in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a similar technical field
- Experience with applied research and shipping machine-learning models or features into production
- Experience with 3D detection, traffic-agent tracking, or semantic traffic-scene understanding
- Deep learning
- Computer vision
- Python
- Machine learning
- Large-scale dataset experience
- Knowledge of machine-learning and computer-vision literature
Responsibilities
- Prototype, evaluate, and iterate on perception algorithms using real-world data and simulations
- Develop 3D detection, traffic-agent tracking, and semantic scene understanding
- Formulate problems and propose pragmatic and long-term solutions
- Support the production deployment of perception algorithms
- Ensure high-quality, well-structured, and tested code
- Collaborate on perception, motion forecasting, planning, traffic modeling, and sensor simulation
- Apply advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and self-driving technology
- Work with large datasets and a high-fidelity simulator
- Contribute research findings to conferences and the company blog
Benefits
- Equity awards
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees
- Unlimited vacation
- Flexible hours
- Work-from-home support
- Daily drinks, snacks, and catered meals when in office
- Team-building activities and social events
- Annual performance bonus
