Research Engineer

4 weeks ago

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Waabi Full time

About Waabi

Waabi 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.

The company is backed by best-in-class investors across the technology, logistics, and 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

Job Description

We are seeking a Research Engineer to be at the forefront of advancing and deploying artificial intelligence algorithms for our self-driving vehicles. You will work closely with our team of world-renowned scientists and engineers specializing in deep learning, computer vision, and self-driving technologies to develop cutting-edge solutions that enable our vehicles to understand and navigate the world around them.

We value originality, innovation, and a commitment to rigorous experimental validation and code quality as we strive to bring research ideas into production and push the boundaries of self-driving technology. Senior engineers are welcome to apply.

Your Responsibilities:

  1. Prototype, evaluate, and iterate on solutions, using real-world data and simulations, to improve the accuracy, robustness, and safety of our self-driving algorithms.
  2. Formulate problems and propose pragmatic and long-term solutions based on research insights, leveraging your expertise in deep learning, computer vision, and self-driving technologies.
  3. Support deploying solutions to our production systems, collaborating closely with platform teams to ensure seamless integration of research findings into our self-driving system.
  4. Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well-structured, and tested code.
  5. Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team solving problems related to perception, motion forecasting, planning, traffic modeling, and sensor simulation, integrating research findings into our self-driving system and contributing to the development of a unified self-driving platform.
  6. Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and self-driving technologies, and apply insights from the literature.
  7. Work with large datasets from various sources as well as Waabi World, our high-fidelity simulator.
  8. Contribute to the publication of research findings in conferences as well as Waabi's blog.
Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you should have:

  1. A Bachelor's in computer science, engineering, machine learning, or a related technical discipline.
  2. Experience working on applied research projects.
  3. Passion for taking research ideas and turning them into practical solutions for real-world applications.
  4. Solid understanding of computing fundamentals, including code efficiency.
  5. Proficient in Python programming with a focus on writing high-quality, well-structured, and tested code.
  6. Comfortable working with large datasets for machine learning applications.
Bonus/Nice to Have

The following qualifications are highly desirable:

  1. A Master/PhD in machine learning, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
  2. Experience in shipping machine learning features/models into production.
  3. Strong grasp of machine learning literature, including current trends and state-of-the-art techniques.
  4. Previous experience in self-driving technology or related fields.

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