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Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Mapping

Waabi· Software – Autonomy & Algorithms
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Hybrid (SF / Pittsburgh / Remote / Toronto)$141k - $242kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior or Staff software engineer on Waabi's Mapping team, building scalable, AI-driven HD mapping infrastructure and collaborating with robotics, CV, and autonomous driving experts.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a versatile engineering powerhouse, quickly ramping up on new domains and fluidly transitioning between backend pipelines, API design, and vehicle-side serving.
  • Be part of a multidisciplinary team of Engineers and Research Scientists using AI-first approach to create high-definition (HD) maps at scale.
  • Architect and build the engineering foundations of our long-term mapping infrastructure.
  • Build robust, scalable pipelines to automatically create, validate, maintain, and visualize massive amounts of data.
  • Design and develop comprehensive metrics, observability, and anomaly detection across various systems.
  • Partner directly with downstream customers (e.g. Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation) to capture complex requirements and implement intuitive APIs.
  • Engineer real-time, high-availability, and low-latency systems for fleet of self-driving vehicles.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, with a minimum of 5 years of industry experience.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals with an aptitude to quickly learn domain-specific concepts like 3D geometry and spatial data structures.
  • Proven ability to work across various programming languages, bridging high-level Python development with robust systems-level engineering in C++ or Rust.
  • Solid experience in designing, developing, and deploying production-quality, fault-tolerant software at scale.
  • Hands-on experience building distributed systems on modern cloud platforms.

Skills

Required:Programming languagesDistributed systemsData pipelinesCloud platforms

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (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 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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