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Research Engineer, Neural Rendering

Waabi· Software – Autonomy & Algorithms
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Hybrid (Toronto, SF, Remote)$134k - $235k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Research Engineer role focused on building next-generation multi-sensor rendering and simulation systems for autonomous driving, combining real-time rendering with neural rendering techniques and diffusion models to create scalable digital twins from camera, LiDAR, and RADAR data.

Responsibilities

  • Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Research Scientists and Engineers building a best-in-class multi-sensor simulation stack.
  • Use cutting edge techniques in reconstruction, neural rendering and generative AI to build large-scale, efficient digital twins from real-world sensor data.
  • Collaborate with Waabi’s autonomy and safety teams to improve the realism and diversity of Waabi World.
  • Contribute to high-impact research papers submitted to top conferences or journals (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA, RA-L).

Qualifications

  • Shipping Production Software. You have experience in reading and developing production quality software, with large ML datasets.
  • Deep understanding of ML or neural rendering. Familiar with diffusion models, vision foundational models or NeRF/3DGS systems beyond application.
  • Cloud Machine Learning. Experience designing, launching, and debugging GPU ML jobs in the cloud (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals. Proficient in Python and PyTorch, and at least one native systems language such as C++ or Rust.

Skills

Required:Production software developmentNeural rendering / ML systemsCloud MLPythonC++ or Rust

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and Wellness benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision for full-time employees).
  • Unlimited Vacation.
  • Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
  • Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (in office).
  • Regular team building activities and social events (on-site, off-site & virtual).
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Waabi

pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks.

Waabi is pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks. We developed a next-generation approach leveraging an end-to-end interpretable and verifiable AI model that’s powered by the industry's most realistic neural simulator. This dramatically reduces the development time and resources needed to bring self-driving vehicles to public roads — safely and at scale.

Autonomous trucksPhysical AIneural simulatorAI modelself-driving vehicles
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