Waabi
Staff Planner SW Quality Architect
$245K–$285K
Remote US & Canada +5 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Location
- Remote US & Canada
Toronto, ON
San Francisco, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Phoenix, AZ
Dallas, TX - Experience
- A minimum of 6 years of industry experience; the posting accepts a bachelor's degree with this experience or an MS/PhD.
- Education
- MS/PhD or bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field.
About the job
Leads software quality and fault tolerance for Waabi’s motion-planning architecture and develops planning software for safe autonomous vehicles.
What you'll do
- Lead software quality for the Planner Architecture, building fault-tolerant systems and addressing performance bottlenecks.
- Bridge Motion Planning and Onboard Software teams to improve software quality and reliability.
- Develop motion-planning software and algorithms, and manage the experimentation pipeline for research and data generation.
What they ask for
- Experience owning software on a shipped product with reliability requirements.
- Strong software engineering principles, including code review, unit testing, scalability, maintainability, software architecture, and full lifecycle.
- Experience with planning and decision-making approaches such as optimal control, optimization, search, or probabilistic decision making.
- Production-quality coding skills in Python or C++.
Pay
$245,000 - $285,000 USD yearly base salary
Tools
Python, C++
AI focus
Uses an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving; develops motion-planning algorithms for decision-making in dynamic traffic scenarios and manages research experimentation and data generation.
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