Waabi is hiring a 2027 Intern PhD Research Scientist in Toronto!
Waabi, a Toronto-headquartered autonomous transportation company founded by Raquel Urtasun, is hiring a 2027 PhD Research Scientist Intern to join its multidisciplinary research and engineering team. The intern will work on AI-first approaches to safe self-driving at scale, contributing to research that powers commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. This is a research-focused internship where the intern takes on a defined AI research project, develops and trains new algorithms on real self-driving vehicles and production systems, and is actively encouraged to publish at top venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, and CVPR. Waabi has offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, and describes itself as fast-growing and collaborative.
Key responsibilities
- Join a team of research scientists and engineers applying an AI-first approach to safe autonomous driving at scale
- Lead or contribute to an AI research project spanning areas such as perception, prediction, motion planning, controls, simulation, mapping, localization, or core AI
- Design, implement, train, and optimize novel algorithms on self-driving vehicles and production systems
- Submit and publish findings at top machine learning, computer vision, and robotics conferences and contribute to the company blog
- Collaborate with colleagues across disciplines and support the wider research team
Key requirements
- Currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, engineering, AI, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, or a closely related field
- Demonstrated research or software engineering experience through internships, work experience, coding competitions, projects, or publications
- At least one publication at a top machine learning, computer vision, or robotics conference
- Strong quantitative foundation including linear algebra, calculus, and probability
- Proficiency reading and writing Python and/or C++
- Open-minded, collaborative team player willing to help others
- Genuine interest in self-driving technology and hard, open-ended problems
- Applicants must submit current academic transcripts alongside their resume
- Seniority: Internship (PhD student)
- Work mode: Not specified
- Key skills: Python, C++, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, Linear Algebra, Probability, Research Publications
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