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Technical Lead Manager, Evaluation & Benchmarking - Waabi

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Job Title
Technical Lead Manager, Evaluation & Benchmarking
Job Location
Toronto, ON
Job Description
Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.

With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai

Rigorous Evaluation & Benchmarking is core to safe development of self-driving systems. The Evaluation & Benchmarking team is responsible for building the algorithms & tooling required to comprehensively evaluate the autonomy system’s performance across all development stages. In this role, you will work closely with the systems & safety teams, responsible for defining the requirements & evaluation criteria, and simulation teams to leverage Waabi World, our highly realistic closed-loop simulation engine built with the latest in generative AI technologies to deliver the evaluation capabilities needed to support the safe development of the next generation of autonomous vehicles!

You will...
- Lead the Evaluation & Benchmarking team responsible for developing the algorithms and tools necessary to thoroughly assess the autonomy system's performance throughout development.
- Work closely with internal users to understand their requirements and workflows and build a long-term roadmap for the team aligned with the company's milestones.
- Lead technical projects; contributing as an IC while also managing a team of engineers.
- Participate and share ideas in technical and architecture discussions, collaborating with researchers and engineers.
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings to offer guidance and constructive feedback to direct reports.
- Advocate and set patterns for software development.

Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6+ years of industry experience including at least 2+ years managing high performing engineering teams.
- MS/PhD or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study.
- Experience working with internal cross-functional partners/stakeholders Experience with system design/architecture and algorithms.
- Open-minded and collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
- Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.

Bonus/nice to have:
- Experience in autonomous systems, robotics, and/or machine learning.
- Experience with large scale databases and analytics.
- Experience with data pipelines & workflow automation.
- Experience with evaluation & benchmarking of complex systems and/or large ML models.

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Waabi Headquarters Location

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Waabi Company Size

Between 10 - 200 employees

Waabi Founded Year

2021

Waabi Funding Rounds

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  • Series B

    $275,000,000 CAD

  • Series A

    $100,000,000 CAD