Research Scientist

Job summary

Responsibilities

With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, 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

• Lead and contribute to AI research projects, pushing the frontiers of the field by developing new algorithms for our autonomy system and state-of-the-art simulator.
• Work on a diverse set of problems related to self-driving, such as perception, motion forecasting, controls, sensor simulation, scenario generation, behavior modeling, mapping…
• Develop innovative solutions to problems by leveraging the latest advances in AI, including transformers, foundational models, LLMs/VLMs, generative modeling…
• Support deploying solutions to our production systems, collaborating closely with platform teams to ensure seamless integration of research findings into production systems.
• Stay up-to-date and advance beyond the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and self-driving technologies.

What they're looking for

• Masters/PhD degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study.
• Demonstrated research experience through previous internships, work experience, research projects, and papers at top conferences.
• Strong quantitative background and coursework in or working knowledge of linear algebra, calculus, and probability.
• Proficient in reading and coding in Python.
• Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.

Tech stack

• Transformers
• Python
• PyTorch
• Rust
• C++
• CUDA