Technical Lead Manager, Simulation Platform

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

Simulation is at the core of Waabi’s approach to autonomous vehicle development. Our closed-loop simulation engine built with the latest in generative AI technologies, Waabi World, provides an extremely realistic environment for training and evaluating self-driving systems. The Simulation Platform team is responsible for delivering a modular and scalable platform which integrates the onboard autonomy system, intelligent actor models, and sensor simulation. In this role, you will collaborate cross-functionally with simulation, autonomy, and safety teams to deliver simulation capabilities that will unlock the next generation of autonomous vehicles!

You will...

• Lead the Simulation Platform team responsible for delivering a modular and scalable simulation platform to accelerate autonomous vehicle development.
• Work closely with internal users to understand their requirements and workflows and build a long-term roadmap for the team aligned with the company's milestones.
• Lead technical projects, contributing as an IC while also managing a team of engineers.
• Improve the scalability and performance of the simulation platform to run simulations efficiently at an extremely large scale.
• Participate and share ideas in technical and architecture discussions, collaborating with researchers and engineers.
• Advocate and set patterns for software development.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5+ years of industry experience including at least 2+ years managing high performing engineering teams.
• MS/PhD or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience. 
• Experience working with internal cross-functional partners/stakeholders when building software frameworks.
• Experience with system design/architecture, algorithms, data structure design, and low level threading.
• Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
• Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.

Bonus/nice to have:

• Experience with game development or building simulators.
• Experience in autonomous systems, robotics or machine learning.
• Experience working in parallel computing environments and in emulation at scale.
• Experience building software systems from scratch.