Posted 45 months ago
Senior / Staff Software Engineer
@ Waabi
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Waabi, a Physical AI company in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas and Pittsburgh, is hiring a senior or staff software engineer to build tools and frameworks for autonomous vehicle development. The role mentors engineers, leads architecture discussions and works with researchers. It is a full-time position requiring 5+ years of production software experience.
Responsibilities:
- Build reliable and scalable tools and frameworks for autonomous vehicle development
- Lead technical and architecture discussions with researchers and engineers
- Mentor software engineers through code reviews and design reviews
- Assist in task planning and estimation
Requirements summary:
- MS/PhD or Bachelor's in computer science, robotics or a similar field
- 5+ years of industry experience developing production software
- Experience with Python, Go, C++ or Rust
- Experience working on a common codebase in a team
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2023-02-10
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required), Master’s degree (preferred), Doctorate (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science, Robotics |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Flexible hours, Wellness, Free or discounted meals |
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Waabi
Funding & investors
Reported funding round: Series C
Investor named in the round: Khosla Ventures, G2 Venture Partners, Uber, NVentures, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Radical Ventures, HarbourVest Partners, Linse Capital, Incharge Capital, Export Development Canada, TELUS Global Ventures, BMO Global Asset Management
Announcement date: · Source checked: 2026-11-02
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Built to think. Born to haul.
Full company description
Waabi is pioneering Physical AI – starting with autonomous trucks. Press: [email protected] Business: [email protected]
- LinkedIn followers
- 28,690
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 291
- Reported office locations
- N/A, Toronto, CA
- San Francisco, California, US
- Business categories
- Artificial Intelligence
- Transportation
- Automotive
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Other recorded names
- Waabi
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 1,033,036,757
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Waabi is pioneering Physical AI – starting with autonomous trucks. Press: [email protected] Business: [email protected]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Truck Transportation |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2021 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 55 |
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Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.
With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, 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
You will…
- Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Researchers using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
- Build reliable and scalable tools and frameworks to support Autonomous Vehicle (AV) development.
- Lead technical and architecture discussions, collaborating with Researchers and Engineers.
- Mentor other software engineers via code reviews, technical design reviews, and sharing general software development best practices.
- Assist in task planning and estimation.
Qualifications:
- MS/PhD or Bachelors degree with a Computer Science, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study.
- 5+ years of industry experience reading and developing production quality software..
- Experience using languages such as Python, Go, C++, or Rust.
- Experience working in a team environment on a common codebase.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
- Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.
Bonus/nice to have:
- Experience programming in C++ for a real world robotic system.
- Comfortable with Linux/other unix environments.
- Comfortable with Docker.
- Comfortable with git workflows.
- Experience in robotics or machine learning.
- Experience with automated testing.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Experience working with internal cross-functional partners/stakeholders when building software frameworks.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: application development, distributed systems, data storage and processing, parallel computing environments, emulation at scale, software performance, optimization, and profiling, concurrency and determinism, test-driven and API-driven development methodologies, system design/architecture, algorithms, data structure design, and low level threading. Front-end development and tools.
Perks/Benefits:
Waabi provides a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Competitive compensation and equity awards.
- Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage.
- 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.
- World-class facility that includes a gym, games room (ping pong table, video game consoles, board games, etc), multiple collaborative working spaces and a gorgeous patio!(when in office)
- As we grow, this list continues to evolve!
Waabi is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and accessible environment for all employees. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know.
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