Senior Software Engineer, Simulation Platform

🕒 June 19, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $159k - $268k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Waabi

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🚗 Transport

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔧 Hardware

💰 Venture Round on 2023-01

Transport • Artificial Intelligence • Hardware

Waabi is a company at the forefront of autonomous trucking technology. Led by AI and self-driving pioneer Raquel Urtasun, Waabi uses advanced Generative AI to develop scalable and safe self-driving solutions. The Waabi Driver, their cutting-edge product, blends an end-to-end trained AI stack with an interpretable architecture, facilitating OEM integration and large-scale commercialization. Waabi World, their highly advanced simulation engine, offers a realistic and immersive environment that accelerates the development and deployment of self-driving technology by reducing the reliance on extensive real-world testing. With partnerships and a visionary approach, Waabi aims to revolutionize logistics and supply chain industries.

📋 Description

• Waabi, founded by AI pioneer and visionary Raquel Urtasun, 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. • Waabi is backed by best-in-class investors across the technology, logistics and the 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 • Simulation is at the core of Waabi’s approach to autonomous vehicle development. • Our closed-loop simulation engine built with the latest in generative AI technologies, Waabi World, provides an extremely realistic environment for training and evaluating self-driving systems. • The Simulation Platform team is responsible for delivering a modular and scalable platform which integrates the onboard autonomy system, intelligent actor models, and sensor simulation. • You will... • Contribute to and improve our state of the art self-driving simulator Waabi World to accelerate autonomous vehicle (AV) development. • Improve the scalability and performance of the simulation platform to run simulations efficiently at an extremely large scale. • Design and implement orchestration software between simulation subcomponents including the autonomy system, data-driven actor models, and sensor simulation powered by generative AI. • Participate and share ideas in technical and architecture discussions, collaborating with researchers and engineers. • Work closely with internal users to understand their requirements and workflows and propose new features to streamline and improve their experience using the simulator. • Advocate and set patterns for software development. • Drive complex cross-functional technical projects with impact across Waabi’s systems and company-wide impact.

🎯 Requirements

• MS/PhD or Bachelors degree with a minimum of 4 years of industry experience in Computer Science, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study. • Experience with a variety of backend technologies and languages. Examples: Python, C++, Rust. • Experience developing and maintaining production quality software, versus only creating prototypes/proof of concepts. • Understanding of test-driven and API-driven development methodologies. • Experience designing interfaces between systems. • Experience with multi-threaded system design/architecture, algorithms, data structure design, and systems-level programming. • Experience working with cross-functional partners/stakeholders when building software frameworks. • Experience with software performance, optimization, and profiling. • Experience with concurrency and determinism. • Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others. • Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions. • Experience with game engine development, simulation, or other similar application runtime development. • Experience in autonomous systems, robotics or machine learning. • Experience working in distributed systems or emulation at scale. • Experience building software systems from scratch. • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment. • Experience working with accelerators. • Experience with sensor data processing.

🏖️ 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. • As we grow, this list continues to evolve!