Waabi
Senior / Staff Research Engineer, Simulation Assets & Content Systems
$155K–$269K
Toronto, ON +3 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Location
- Toronto, ON
San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Remote US & Canada
About the job
Build and own the production asset pipelines, systems, and tools that manage 3D simulation content for Waabi’s multi-sensor simulation stack.
What you'll do
- Architect end-to-end asset pipelines, from raw sensor logs through validation and delivery into Waabi World.
- Design asset schemas, formats, storage, compression, streaming, and cross-renderer interoperability.
- Build tools to inspect and curate large asset libraries, and productionize reconstruction, diffusion, and world-model techniques.
What they ask for
- Experience shipping production-quality software at scale that engineers and researchers rely on.
- Experience building or extending large-scale 3D content pipelines.
- Fluency in several listed 3D representations and understanding of their trade-offs.
- Experience designing, launching, and debugging cloud GPU jobs; strong Python skills and at least one of C++ or Rust.
Pay
$155,000 - $269,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, Rust, AWS, GCP, OpenUSD, NeRF, 3D Gaussian Splatting
AI focus
Collaborate with neural rendering and generative AI teams to productionize reconstruction, diffusion, and world-model techniques in the asset lifecycle.
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