Hybrid Senior/Staff Graphics Software Engineer, Sensor Simulation

at Waabi

• Job title: Senior/Staff Graphics Software Engineer, Sensor Simulation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $155,000 - $269,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud, Python, PyTorch, Rust, Tensorflow
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Software Engineer creating next generation multi-sensor rendering software for autonomous driving at Waabi. Collaborating with a team of scientists and engineers to innovate scalable rendering and content creation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Create the next generation of multi-sensor rendering software for autonomous driving.
• Collaborate with our team of world-renowned scientists and engineers to build innovative, practical, and scalable rendering and content creation solutions for self-driving.
• Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Research Scientists and Engineers working on building a cutting-edge multi-sensor simulation stack leveraging graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.
• Design and implement core rendering technology for simulating cameras, LiDARs, and RADARs by mixing traditional real-time rendering with neural rendering, 3D Gaussian Splatting, generative models, etc.
• Collaborate with Waabi’s autonomy and safety teams to improve the realism and diversity of Waabi World.
• Have the opportunity to publish high-impact research at top conferences (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA).

Requirements

• Real-time graphics experience. You’ve spent a minimum of three years shipping real-time rendering projects, and you have extensive experience in at least one GPU API (Vulkan, DirectX, OpenGL, or similar).
• Familiarity with GPU optimization. You have a deep understanding of GPU performance, and you know how to use instrumentation and tracing tools like NSight, Tracy, or Renderdoc to identify and address bottlenecks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You write efficient and maintainable code in systems languages such as C++ or Rust, and you are proficient in at least one shading language (GLSL, HLSL, WGSL, etc.).
• A passion for building worlds. Whether you've worked on AAA games, indie titles, or complex robotics simulators, you have experience creating and working within interactive 3D environments.
• Bonus/nice to have:
• Experience in working with robotics and other autonomous systems.
• Experience with accelerated computing like CUDA, OpenCL, and Vulkan compute pipelines.
• Experience with accelerated raytracing (Nvidia OptiX, Vulkan Raytracing, DXR, etc.).
• Experience with Python and deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
• Experience with neural rendering (NeRF, Gaussian Splatting, etc.).
• Experience working in cloud computing environments, e.g., launching and debugging GPU jobs in the cloud.

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!