Research Scientist

Waabi is a technology start-up leading in Physical AI, focused on transforming autonomous transportation. As a Research Scientist, you will invent new AI technologies for fully driverless trucks and contribute to Waabi's vision of a single AI system that learns in a safe manner.

Responsibilities:

• 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