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Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Simulation Platform

Waabi· Software – Autonomy & Algorithms
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Hybrid (Toronto, ON; San Francisco, CA; Remote US & Canada)$159k - $268kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior/Staff role focused on developing Waabi World simulation platform for autonomous vehicles, improving scalability and performance, and integrating subcomponents such as autonomy system, actor models, and sensor simulation.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • MS/PhD or Bachelors degree with a minimum of 5 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: Rust (Preferred), C++, Python.
  • Experience developing and maintaining production quality software, versus only creating prototypes/proof of concepts.
  • Linux/Unix experience
  • 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.

Skills

Required:RustPythonLinux/UnixDistributed / multi-threaded systemsAPI-driven developmentSoftware architecture
Nice to have:C++

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.
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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