Senior / Staff Onboard Platform Software Engineer

Waabi, founded by AI pioneer and visionary Raquel Urtasun, is an AI company building the next generation of self-driving technology. With a world class team and an innovative approach that unleashes the power of AI to “drive” safely in the real world, Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before. Waabi is backed by best-in-class investors across the technology, logistics and the Canadian innovation ecosystem.

With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, and Dallas, 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

The Onboard Software Platform team owns our high-level software integration framework, data logging, performance measurement tools, system-level optimization, and sensor integration.

You will...

• Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
• Participate in roadmap planning, system design, development, and testing of our high-level software stack for self-driving trucks. 
• Implement and maintain high-level software abstractions used to integrate our autonomy system in real-time on our trucks and in our deterministic simulator.
• Partner with autonomy software development teams to help them integrate new features.
• Identify integration patterns that would benefit from new design patterns or framework abstractions. Integrate sensors and optimize data pre-processing latency.
• Build or integrate performance measurement tools, data recording, and data visualization tools.
• Develop software according to industry-best practices for safe, reliable and robust code.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Undergrad or Masters in Computer Science, Electrical Engineer, Computer Engineering and/or related technical fields.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience.
• Strong technical experience with C, C++ or Rust as well as working experience with a scripting language.
• Systems programming, high-level network programming, and system-level optimization experience.
• Experience working with or designing multiple different kinds of software integration frameworks and communication paradigms.

Nice to have:

• Experience in self-driving, automotive or robotics fields.
• Low-level Linux and networking knowledge.
• Experience with sensor integration such as LiDAR, camera or radar and related concepts such as time synchronization.
• Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others.
• Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.

The US yearly salary range for this role is: $141,000 - $242,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi (US) Inc.’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.  Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.