Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Web Tools

About the role

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 and San Francisco, 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
 
On Tools, we build software tools that solve Waabi-specific problems and accelerate development. We have a relatively unique set of skills within the software organization that lets us build those tools. The Tools team owns and maintain services that have been built. In this team you will improve on our existing suite of services, and expanding it with new tools.
 
You will...
- 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.
- Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Researchers using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
- Build and maintain interactive web tools including interactive simulation, custom labelling tools, data annotation tools, dataset curation tools, result comparison tools, and more.
 
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related engineering disciplines.
- 5+ years of industry experience developing production quality software.
- Experience with modern web technologies/libraries for building responsive web applications. Examples: TypeScript, React, or similar languages and tools.
- Experience with a variety of backend technologies and languages. Examples:  Go, Python, Rust, C++.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.- Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Empathy for the people who will use the tools you create and maintain.- 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 working with container and cloud infrastructure and managing infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience with 3D visualization (WebGL) / real-time interactive systems.
- Experience with web visualization libraries such as D3.js, three.js, or similar.
- Previous experience or passion in UX/design.
- Experience with software development tools including build system, version control, continuous integration, containers, packaging, profiling, debugging, code review, linting, test automation, and test coverage tools.
- Experience in ML and self-driving.
- Experience working with robotics or machine learning research teams.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
 
The US yearly salary range for this role is: $141,000 - $249,000 in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi’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.