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Research Scientist, Neural Reconstruction

Waabi· Software – Autonomy & Algorithms
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Hybrid (Toronto, SF, Pittsburgh, Remote)$155k - $269kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Research Scientist focused on neural reconstruction and rendering to enable Waabi World's 3D/4D scene reconstruction from sensor data, including 3DGS/NeRF, dynamic scenes, and scalable pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct fundamental and applied research in neural reconstruction, including: 3DGS / NeRF; Dynamic scene reconstruction; Feed-forward reconstruction; Multi-sensor scene representation learning
  • Build scalable reconstruction and simulation systems for dynamic urban scenes, including vehicles, background, lighting, and long-range structure
  • Collaborate with simulation engineers to integrate models into large-scale, distributed training and rendering pipelines
  • Publish high-impact research at top conferences (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA, SIGGRAPH)
  • Mentor junior scientists and interns; foster a culture of scientific rigor and rapid experimentation
  • Stay current with emerging advances in neural rendering, 3D representation learning, differentiable rendering, and scalable reconstruction systems

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related field or equivalent research experience pushing the boundaries of a technical field
  • Expert-level Python & PyTorch (or JAX) skills; strong software-engineering fundamentals and experience with distributed training
  • Expert domain knowledge; built generative or predictive models of the physical world with scale and efficiency for real-world applications
  • Team player; experience in close-knit teams of researchers and engineers with strong communication to deliver successful projects

Skills

Required:Ph.D. or equivalent research experiencePythonPyTorch or JAXDistributed training
Nice to have:3DGS / NeRF / neural renderingMulti-sensor fusion

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards
  • Health and Wellness benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision for full-time employees)
  • 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 (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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