Research Scientist

Summary

Waabi is a leader in Physical AI, focused on transforming autonomous transportation. As a research scientist, you will develop new AI technologies for fully driverless trucks and contribute to Waabi's vision of a unified AI system, working on diverse self-driving challenges and innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• 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, localization, intelligent data mining & analysis, and safe deployment
• Develop innovative solutions to problems by leveraging the latest advances in AI, including transformers, foundational models, LLMs/VLMs, generative modeling, imitation/reinforcement learning, inverse rendering, etc
• 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
• Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well structured and tested code
• Submit and publish work externally at top machine learning, computer vision, and robotics conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, etc.) and post to our company blog

Skills

• Masters/PhD degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study. Exceptional Bachelor's students will also be considered
• 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
• Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions
• Previous experience in self-driving technology
• Experience in shipping machine learning features/models into production
• Proven track record of mentoring junior researchers or engineers
• Proficiency in Pytorch, Rust, C++ and/or CUDA

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Masters/PhD degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study. Exceptional Bachelor's students will also be considered
• 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
• Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions

Nice to Haves

• Previous experience in self-driving technology
• Experience in shipping machine learning features/models into production
• Proven track record of mentoring junior researchers or engineers
• Proficiency in Pytorch, Rust, C++ and/or CUDA

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity awards.
• Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).
• Unlimited Vacation.
• Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
• Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
• Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.