PnP Onboard Integration Engineer

Company: Waabi
Location: Phoenix
Posted on: February 14, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description 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 - Support productizing and deploying perception algorithms to our self-driving vehicles, collaborating closely with platform teams to ensure seamless integration of research findings into our self-driving system. - Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well structured and tested code. - Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team solving problems related to perception, motion forecasting, planning, traffic modeling and sensor simulation, integrating research findings into our self-driving system and contributing to the development of a unified self-driving platform. - Solve challenging integration issues across a number of sensor modalities (LIDAR, RADAR, cameras) and deep learning models (perception, prediction, implicit representations). - Develop new features by finding innovative ways to use generally trained perception models. - Develop onboard code to bring new interpretable and robust perception features to the road. Qualifications: - MS/PhD or Bachelors degree with a minimum of 4 years of industry experience in Computer Science, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study. - Experience in shipping machine learning features/models into production. - Expert level C\C++ or Rust (we use Rust) in resource constrained environments. - Previous experience in multimodal sensor fusion. - Previous experience in self-driving technology or related fields. - Solid understanding of computing fundamentals, including code efficiency. Bonus/nice to have: - Strong grasp of machine learning and computer vision literature, including current trends and state-of-the-art techniques. - Experience driving projects on 3D detection, tracking of traffic agents and/or semantic understanding of various traffic scenes. - Experience in working with platform teams and collaborating with research teams to implement and validate deep learning models. The US yearly salary range for this role is: $155,000 - $213,000 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. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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