Research Scientist

Join us to build the next frontier of applying generative AI in the physical world! As a research scientist, you will invent new AI technologies that enable our launch of fully driverless autonomous trucks. You will contribute towards Waabi's vision of a single AI system that learns end-to-end and in a provably safe manner as well as our revolutionary high-fidelity, closed-loop simulator, Waabi World. Both senior and junior scientists are welcome to apply.

You will...

• Lead and contribute to AI research projects, pushing the frontiers of the field by developing new algorithms for our autonomy system and state-of-the-art simulator.
• Work on a diverse set of problems related to self-driving, such as perception, motion forecasting, controls, sensor simulation, scenario generation, behavior modeling, mapping, localization, intelligent data mining & analysis, and safe deployment.
• Develop innovative solutions to problems by leveraging the latest advances in AI, including transformers, foundational models, LLMs/VLMs, generative modeling, imitation/reinforcement learning, inverse rendering, etc.
• Support deploying solutions to our production systems, collaborating closely with platform teams to ensure seamless integration of research findings into production systems.
• Stay up-to-date and advance beyond the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and self-driving technologies.
• Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well structured and tested code.
• Submit and publish work externally at top machine learning, computer vision, and robotics conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, etc.) and post to our company blog.

Qualifications:

• Masters/PhD degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study. Exceptional Bachelor’s students will also be considered.
• Demonstrated research experience through previous internships, work experience, research projects, and papers at top conferences.
• Strong quantitative background and coursework in or working knowledge of linear algebra, calculus, and probability.
• Proficient in reading and coding in Python.
• Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
• Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.

Bonus Points:

• Previous experience in self-driving technology.
• Experience in shipping machine learning features/models into production.
• Proven track record of mentoring junior researchers or engineers.
• Proficiency in Pytorch, Rust, C++ and/or CUDA.