Senior / Staff Software Engineer, High-Performance Onboard Algorithms

Role Description

As a Software Engineer in High-Performance Onboard Algorithms, you will be a key contributor to the development and optimization of our real-time signal processing pipeline for autonomous driving. You will collaborate with our team of world-renowned scientists and engineers to build innovative, practical, and scalable solutions that handle massive amounts of sensor data (camera, LiDAR, radar, and others) with low latency and high reliability. We value original, high-impact ideas and rigorous experimental validation.

• Be part of a multidisciplinary team of Engineers and Scientists working on building a best-in-class, high-performance sensor processing stack.
• Design, implement, and optimize highly efficient algorithms for sensor data acquisition, processing, fusion, and filtering, ensuring real-time performance on target hardware.
• Work on shipping next-generation signal processing software, leveraging parallel computing architectures (e.g., CPU, GPU, specialized accelerators) and low-level system programming.
• Collaborate with Waabi’s autonomy and hardware teams to ensure the efficiency and robustness of the entire system.

Qualifications

• Fundamentals of computer architecture: Deep understanding of how modern computer systems work (multi-core, vector units, cache management, memory hierarchy, networking).
• Data-parallel algorithms: Experience implementing data-parallel and compute-intensive algorithms in domains such as image/video processing, compression, and optimizing modern neural networks.
• Heterogeneous computing and systems programming: Comfortable with balancing workloads across multiple different processors, managing the ownership and movement of data buffers, and optimizing for overall system performance.
• Performance profiling and optimization: Ability to identify bottlenecks in a complex codebase and make optimization decisions that have lasting impact.
• Shipping Production Software: Experience in reading and developing production quality software. Writes efficient and maintainable code in a native language such as C++ or Rust (we use Rust and a variety of DSLs).

Requirements

• Bonus: Experience with accelerated computing like CUDA, Vulkan, and OpenCL.
• Experience with domain specific languages such as Halide, Taichi, Mojo, or Warp.
• Experience with CPU intrinsics (SSE/AVX, NEON/SVE).
• Experience with embedded systems.
• Shipped production software in one or more of the following areas: image and video processing, compression, streaming algorithms, deep learning, geometry processing.
• Publications in top-tier conferences or journals related to high-performance computing, image processing, computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, or self-driving technology.

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!