Software Engineer, Labelling, Data & Automation

The role

You will build pipelines, tools and workflows for Waabi's Labelling and Data Automation team. The work supports the training of AI models for self-driving technology, including data extraction, ground truth labelling and deployment of data solutions.

What you will do

• Design and implement tools, pipelines and metrics to accelerate autonomy and generative AI simulator development
• Own the process, criteria and tooling for finding interesting and relevant data across petabytes of real-world data
• Build high reliability systems for extracting and labelling data with vendors and integrating it back into the system
• Work with internal and third-party stakeholders to define taxonomy, validation rules and success criteria for labelling projects
• Design and manage end-to-end deployment of data solutions for ML teams
• Deploy open-set and embedding models to production for new search and curation
• Champion engineering excellence with high-quality, well-tested code
• Contribute to project roadmap planning, prioritization and delivery

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience
• Bachelor's in computer science, engineering, machine learning or a related technical discipline
• Proficient in Python with strong software engineering fundamentals
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills, technologies and libraries
• Strong experience with data pipelines for large-scale processing and analysis
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Understanding of cloud job orchestration, monitoring and instrumentation best practices
• Open-minded, collaborative team player who helps others
• Passionate about self-driving technologies and solving hard problems

Nice to have

• Experience with ML pipelines, including dataset curation, labelling, training and evaluation
• Previous experience in self-driving technology or related fields
• Familiarity with linear algebra (projections, transforms) and 3D geometry
• Experience with MapReduce (Apache Hadoop/Spark) or orchestration frameworks (Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Google Dataflow, AWS Step Functions)
• Experience with front end development
• Experience working with open-set or embedding models and deploying them in production
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity awards
• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (full-time employees only)
• 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 on-site, off-site and virtually

Before you apply

• Waabi is an equal opportunity employer and makes accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities on request

About the company

Waabi, founded by Raquel Urtasun, works on Physical AI and autonomous transportation, powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. It is backed by and partners with leaders in AI, automotive, logistics and deep tech.