Waabi
Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Mapping
$141K–$242K
San Francisco, CA +4 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 4, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Remote Canada
Remote US
Toronto, ON - Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of industry experience.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Scientist, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Build scalable mapping infrastructure and real-time systems that create, maintain, and serve high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles.
What you'll do
- Build scalable pipelines to create, validate, maintain, and visualize mapping data, with metrics, observability, and anomaly detection.
- Develop mapping infrastructure, APIs, and real-time, high-availability, low-latency systems for autonomous vehicle fleets.
- Collaborate with research and engineering teams and downstream customers to translate requirements into production systems.
What they ask for
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Scientist, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and ability to work across Python and C++ or Rust.
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying production-quality, fault-tolerant software at scale.
- Hands-on experience building distributed systems on modern cloud platforms.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with autonomous vehicles, HD mapping, or robotics.
- Familiarity with geospatial systems, spatial databases, machine learning pipelines, or large-scale data processing and orchestration frameworks.
Pay
$141,000 - $242,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, C++, Rust, QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, Apache Spark, Airflow
AI focus
Work on an AI-first approach to create high-definition maps at scale; familiarity with machine learning pipelines or integrating AI models into production systems is a plus.
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