Staff Planner SW Quality Architect

The role

You will lead software quality for the planner architecture, building fault-tolerance systems for safe vehicle operation. You will also design motion planning software and algorithms for self-driving decision making.

What you will do

• Lead the software quality of the planner architecture
• Build robust fault-tolerance systems to resolve critical performance bottlenecks
• Act as a technical bridge between the Motion Planning and Onboard Software teams
• Design and develop motion planning software and algorithms for dynamic, interactive traffic scenarios
• Work with multidisciplinary engineers and research scientists using an AI-first approach
• Manage the experimentation pipeline for research and data generation

Required qualifications

• MS/PhD, or Bachelor degree with at least 6 years of industry experience in Computer Science, Robotics or a similar technical field
• Experience owning software on a shipped product with reliability requirements
• Strong grasp of software engineering principles: code review, unit testing, scalability, maintainability, software architecture, full lifecycle
• Experience in planning and decision making approaches such as optimal control, optimization, search methods or probabilistic decision making
• Production-quality coding skill in Python or C++
• Open-minded and collaborative team player who helps others
• Able to make progress on long-term goals while working on short-term problems
• Passionate about self-driving technologies and solving hard problems

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 offers no statement on visa sponsorship in this posting

About the company

Waabi is a technology start-up building Physical AI for autonomous trucks and robotaxis. It has offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas and Pittsburgh.