[Hiring] Research Engineer, Calibration @Waabi

Role Description

As a Research Engineer in Calibration, you will create the next generation of calibration systems for autonomous driving. You will collaborate with our team of world-renowned scientists and engineers to build innovative, practical, and scalable calibration and monitoring solutions for self-driving. We value original, high-impact ideas and rigorous experimental validation.

• Be part of a multidisciplinary team of Engineers and Scientists working on a scalable system to produce fast, accurate calibration for a wide array of sensing modalities (e.g. camera, lidar, radar, IMU, GNSS).
• Develop the next generation of calibration algorithms leveraging classical and learning-based approaches in 3D geometry with a focus on robustness, compute efficiency, and safety-critical accuracy.
• Design and implement real-time calibration integrity monitoring algorithms to ensure safe autonomous driving on a diverse fleet of vehicles.
• Coordinate large-scale deployment of the calibration of an entire fleet of autonomous vehicles.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge in calibration problems.
• Understanding of sensor modelling.
• Shipping Production Software.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.

Requirements

• You have prior experience fusing multi-sensor systems, from posing and modeling hidden sensor parameters to evaluating calibration quality.
• You should understand how to leverage classical algorithms (e.g. ICP, RQE, SLAM, visual and radar odometry) and learning-based approaches (e.g. NeRF, 3D Splatting) to solve the calibration problem.
• You know how various sensor modalities work from a physical perspective and understand how different modelling assumptions will impact data interpretation and the final calibration.
• You have the ability to investigate the calibration issues down to the sensor hardware level to root cause issues.
• You have experience in reading and developing production quality software, versus only creating prototypes and proofs of concept.
• You write efficient and maintainable code in a native language such as C++ or Rust (we use Rust), and are comfortable with Python interop.

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!