6 months ago
Remote, United States +3 moreSenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$148k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize real-time algorithms for sensor data acquisition, processing, fusion, and filtering.
- Build production signal-processing software for camera, LiDAR, radar, and other sensor data.
- Use CPU, GPU, and specialized accelerator architectures to achieve low-latency performance.
- Apply low-level systems programming, data-buffer management, and performance profiling to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with autonomy, hardware, engineering, and science teams to improve system efficiency and robustness.
- Ship scalable, reliable software for autonomous driving applications.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of computer architecture, including multi-core systems, vector units, cache management, memory hierarchy, and networking.
- Experience implementing data-parallel and compute-intensive algorithms for areas such as image or video processing, compression, or neural-network optimization.
- Experience with heterogeneous computing, workload balancing, data ownership, and movement of data buffers.
- Ability to profile complex codebases and make impactful performance optimizations.
- Experience reading and developing production-quality software in C++ or Rust.
- Bonus experience with CUDA, Vulkan, OpenCL, Halide, Taichi, Mojo, Warp, CPU intrinsics, or embedded systems.
- Production experience in image and video processing, compression, streaming algorithms, deep learning, or geometry processing is beneficial.
- Publications in relevant high-performance computing, image processing, computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, or self-driving technology venues are a bonus.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity awards.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees.
- Unlimited vacation.
- Flexible hours and work-from-home support.
- Daily drinks, snacks, and catered meals when working in the office.
- Regular on-site, off-site, and virtual team-building activities and social events.
About Waabi
Waabi builds AI-driven self-driving technology for long‑haul freight, centered on the Waabi Driver autonomous trucking system and the Waabi World simulator. The company partners with carriers and vehicle makers to commercialize autonomous trucks and explores robotaxi applications. Founded in 2021 by Raquel Urtasun, Waabi is privately held, headquartered in Toronto, with offices in San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh.