Senior Research Engineer

Position:
Senior / Staff Research Engineer, Simulation Assets & Content Systems

Company:
Waabi

Compensation:
$155,000 - $269,000 USD

Location:
(Canada, Toronto) / (USA, San Francisco) / (USA, Pittsburgh) / (Remote)

Employment type:
Full-time

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid

Short Summary:
Waabi is a leader in Physical AI, focused on transforming autonomous transportation. The role involves building a multi-sensor simulation stack and managing asset pipelines for simulation-ready representations.

Responsibilities:
- Be part of a multidisciplinary team of Research Scientists and Engineers.
- Architect and own asset pipelines from raw sensor logs to simulation-ready representations.
- Design schemas, formats, and storage for a heterogeneous asset library.
- Build tooling and visualization for asset inspection and curation.
- Integrate cutting-edge research into the pipeline.
- Collaborate with autonomy and safety teams to meet training demands.

Requirement:
- Experience in shipping production-quality software at scale.
- Built or extended large-scale 3D content pipelines.
- Fluent in modern 3D representations and understand trade-offs.
- Experience designing and debugging GPU jobs in the cloud.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and a native systems language (C++ or Rust).

Benefits:
- Competitive compensation and equity awards.
- Health and Wellness benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision).
- Unlimited Vacation.
- Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
- Daily drinks, snacks, and catered meals (when in office).
- Regular team building activities and social events.