Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Localization
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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.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will architect, implement, and optimize real-time vehicle localization and state-estimation systems. You will fuse sensor data, develop mathematical models and low-latency Rust code, integrate map data and semantic landmarks, and build evaluation frameworks for simulation and physical test tracks.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of industry experience
- Expertise in probabilistic robotics, state estimation, and 3D geometry
- Experience building and optimizing SLAM systems and point-cloud registration algorithms
- Experience processing and fusing IMU, LiDAR, Radar, GNSS, and other sensor data
- Systems-level programming skills in modern C++ and/or Rust
- Knowledge of memory management, concurrency, and real-time computing
- Python proficiency for data analysis, prototyping, and tooling
- Knowledge of linear algebra, calculus, and probability theory
- Experience deploying state-estimation algorithms on physical robots or autonomous vehicles
Responsibilities
- Act as a domain expert in real-time vehicle localization and state estimation
- Design, implement, and optimize multi-sensor fusion algorithms
- Architect mathematical models for factor graph optimization and Kalman filters
- Develop low-latency Rust code for vehicle compute devices
- Integrate map data and semantic landmarks into the localization pipeline
- Build evaluation frameworks for localization accuracy, integrity, and fault tolerance
Benefits
- Equity awards
- Annual performance bonus
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Unlimited vacation
- Flexible hours
- Work-from-home support
- Daily drinks, snacks, and catered meals when in office
- Team-building activities and social events
