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You will collaborate with our team of world-renowned scientists and engineers to build innovative, practical, and scalable solutions that handle massive amounts of sensor data (camera, LiDAR, radar, and others) with low latency and high reliability. We value original, high-impact ideas and rigorous experimental validation.\nYou will…\nBe part of a multidisciplinary team of Engineers and Scientists working on building a best-in-class, high-performance sensor processing stack.\nDesign, implement, and optimize highly efficient algorithms for sensor data acquisition, processing, fusion, and filtering, ensuring real-time performance on target hardware.\nWork on shipping next-generation signal processing software, leveraging parallel computing architectures (e.g., CPU, GPU, specialized accelerators) and low-level system programming.\nCollaborate with Waabi’s autonomy and hardware teams to ensure the efficiency and robustness of the entire system.\nQualifications:\n Fundamentals of computer architecture. You have a deep understanding of how modern computer systems work (multi-core, vector units, cache management, memory hierarchy, networking).\nData-parallel algorithms. 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