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Senior / Staff Software Engineer, High-Performance Onboard Algorithms

Waabi· Software – Software Engineering
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Hybrid (Toronto, ON), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Pittsburgh, PA), Hybrid (Remote United States & Canada)$148k - $260kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior/Staff Software Engineer focused on high-performance onboard algorithms and real-time signal processing for autonomous driving, collaborating with scientists and engineers to build scalable, low-latency sensor processing pipelines for camera, LiDAR, radar, and other sensors.

Responsibilities

  • Be part of a multidisciplinary team of Engineers and Scientists working on building a best-in-class, high-performance sensor processing stack.
  • Design, implement, and optimize highly efficient algorithms for sensor data acquisition, processing, fusion, and filtering, ensuring real-time performance on target hardware.
  • Work on shipping next-generation signal processing software, leveraging parallel computing architectures (e.g., CPU, GPU, specialized accelerators) and low-level system programming.
  • Collaborate with Waabi’s autonomy and hardware teams to ensure the efficiency and robustness of the entire system.

Qualifications

  • Fundamentals of computer architecture. You have a deep understanding of how modern computer systems work (multi-core, vector units, cache management, memory hierarchy, networking).
  • Data-parallel algorithms. You have experience implementing data-parallel and compute-intensive algorithms in domains such as image/video processing, compression, and optimizing modern neural networks.
  • Heterogeneous computing and systems programming. You are comfortable with balancing workloads across multiple different processors, managing the ownership and movement of data buffers, and optimizing for overall system performance.
  • Performance profiling and optimization. You know how to identify bottlenecks in a complex codebase and make optimization decisions that have lasting impact.
  • Shipping Production Software. You have experience in reading and developing production quality software. You write efficient and maintainable code in a native language such as C++ or Rust (we use Rust and a variety of DSLs).

Skills

Required:Computer architecture fundamentalsData-parallel algorithmsHeterogeneous computing and systems programmingPerformance profiling and optimizationProduction software development

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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