As a Research Engineer for Learnable Planner, you'll integrate ML models into the planning stack, develop testing interfaces, improve planner architecture, and stay updated on AI advancements. You'll work with large datasets and contribute to research publications.
Waabi, founded by AI pioneer and visionary Raquel Urtasun, is an AI company building the next generation of self-driving technology. With a world class team and an innovative approach that unleashes the power of AI to “drive” safely in the real world, Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before. Waabi is backed by best-in-class investors across the technology, logistics and the Canadian innovation ecosystem.
With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, and Dallas, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai
The Motion Planning team delivers the core module within the autonomy stack that makes decisions and generates trajectories for our self-driving trucks. As a research engineer for Learnable Planner you will support integration of new AI technologies into our autonomy/planner stack enabling 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.
You will...
- Integrate cutting-edge ML models in production planning stack from development to validation, deployment, and monitoring
- Develop necessary interfaces and pipelines in simulation for testing prototype or production planning models
- Work closely with motion planning sub-teams and research scientists to improve our planner architecture and develop rich and novel representations that can facilitate end-to-end solutions
- Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well structured and tested code.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and self-driving technologies, and apply insights from the literature.
- Work with large datasets from various sources as well as Waabi World, our high-fidelity simulator.
- Contribute to the publication of research findings in conferences as well as Waabi's blog.
Qualifications:
- MS/PhD in machine learning, computer science, engineering, or a related field. Exceptional Bachelor’s students will also be considered.
- Experience in ML-based or classical techniques for planning/decision making (e.g., imitation and reinforcement learning, optimization-based approaches, search methods, probabilistic reasoning).
- Passion for taking research ideas and turning them into practical solutions for real-world applications.
- Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
- Solid understanding of computing fundamentals, including code efficiency.
- Experience in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Proficiency in Python, Rust, C++ and/or CUDA.
Bonus/nice to have:
- Experience deploying ML/DL models to a production motion planning or related robotics stack.
- Experience in iterating on a model including evaluation, introspection and fine-tuning.
- Strong grasp of machine learning literature, including current trends and state-of-the-art techniques.
- Comfortable with model compilation and exporting, lower level concepts like TensorRT, CUDA kernels.
The US yearly salary range for this role is: $159,000 - $296,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi (US) Inc.’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.
Perks/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.
- As we grow, this list continues to evolve!
Waabi is a technology start-up building technologies to transform the way the world moves. Join our talented team to be a part of the future and to make an impact!
Waabi is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and accessible workplace for all our employees. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, caregiver status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. We make workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know.
Top Skills
C++
Cuda
Python
PyTorch
Rust
Tensorrt
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