Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Web Tools

Waabi Waabi · Robotics · Toronto, ON +2 · Remote · Software Engineering

This role is for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Tools team at Waabi, an AI company focused on self-driving technology. The team builds and maintains software tools that support Waabi's AI-first approach to self-driving development, including interactive simulation, labeling, annotation, and data curation tools. The role involves leading technical discussions, mentoring engineers, and building interactive web tools. While the company is AI-focused and the tools support AI development, the core craft of this role is software engineering for web tools, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead technical and architecture discussions, collaborating with Researchers and Engineers.
  2. Mentor other software engineers via code reviews, technical design reviews, and sharing general software development best practices.
  3. Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Researchers using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
  4. Build and maintain interactive web tools including interactive simulation, custom labelling tools, data annotation tools, dataset curation tools, result comparison tools, and more.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of industry experience developing production quality software
  • Experience with modern web technologies/libraries for building responsive web applications
  • Experience with a variety of backend technologies and languages
  • 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

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

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-first approach
  • self-driving technology