Who you are
- MS/PhD or Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 4 years of industry experience in Robotics, Controls, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and/or similar technical fields
- Demonstrated depth in control theory and dynamic systems (e.g., MPC, optimal control, state estimation, system identification, kinematic and dynamic vehicle modeling)
- Hands-on experience applying machine learning to a physical system, with real hardware in the loop rather than simulation alone
- Production-quality coding skill in Python and C++, and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch
- Solid problem solving skills using linear algebra, optimization, statistics & probability
- Ability to rapidly prototype and test new algorithms, and to design the experiments that prove whether they work
- Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others
- Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating creative solutions
What the job involves
- Design and develop data-driven and machine-learned approaches to vehicle control problems, bringing modern ML to a domain traditionally solved with classical methods
- Develop learned models of vehicle behavior and dynamics, and integrate them into the closed-loop simulation
- Apply machine learning to improve how the controller adapts across vehicles and operating conditions
- Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale
- Own problems end to end, from conceptualization and offline experimentation through simulation and on-vehicle validation
- Build the data pipelines, evaluation metrics, and tooling needed to measure whether a learned approach outperforms the classical baseline
- Participate and share ideas in technical and architecture discussions, helping define how learning and classical control coexist in a safety-critical stack
📌 Senior Staff Software Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Waabi
📍 Toronto