Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Simulation Platform

About the role

You will contribute to and improve our state of the art self‑driving simulator Waabi World to accelerate autonomous vehicle development. The Simulation Platform team delivers a modular and scalable platform integrating the onboard autonomy system, intelligent actor models, and sensor simulation.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to and improve our state of the art self‑driving simulator Waabi World to accelerate autonomous vehicle (AV) development.
• Improve the scalability and performance of the simulation platform to run simulations efficiently at an extremely large scale.
• Design and implement orchestration software between simulation subcomponents including the autonomy system, data‑driven actor models, and sensor simulation powered by generative AI.
• Participate and share ideas in technical and architecture discussions, collaborating with researchers and engineers.
• Work closely with internal users to understand their requirements and workflows and propose new features to streamline and improve their experience using the simulator.
• Advocate and set patterns for software development.
• Drive complex cross‑functional technical projects with impact across Waabi’s systems and company‑wide impact.

Required profile

• MS/PhD or Bachelors degree with a minimum of 5 years of industry experience in Computer Science, Robotics or related fields.
• Experience with backend technologies and languages such as Rust (preferred), C++, Python.
• Experience developing and maintaining production‑quality software.
• Linux/Unix experience.
• Understanding of test‑driven and API‑driven development methodologies.
• Experience designing interfaces between systems.
• Experience with multi‑threaded system design, algorithms, data structures and systems‑level programming.
• Experience working with cross‑functional partners/stakeholders when building software frameworks.
• Experience with software performance, optimization, and profiling.
• Experience with concurrency and determinism.
• Open‑minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
• Passionate about self‑driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.

Required skills

• Rust
• C++
• Python
• Linux/Unix
• Test‑driven development
• API‑driven development
• Multi‑threaded system design
• Algorithms
• Data structures
• Systems‑level programming
• Software performance optimization
• Profiling
• Concurrency
• Determinism
• Docker
• Bazel
• Agile/Scrum
• Distributed systems
• Game engine development
• Sensor data processing