Waabi

Waabi

Distillation Lead

San Francisco, CA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$195k-$286kDetected 83 days ago
PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchComputer VisionLLMsLogisticsRoboticsResearchLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis.
  • 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.
  • Expert Python and PyTorch (or JAX) skills with experience in large-scale distributed training. - Technical leadership: You have a proven track record of setting technical direction and driving projects from conception to production.

Responsibilities

  • Waabi is a technology start-up building technologies to transform the way the world moves.

Requirements

  • relevant hands-on experience in model distillation and efficiency is what matters most.
  • Expert Python and PyTorch (or JAX) skills with experience in large-scale distributed training.
  • Technical leadership: You have a proven track record of setting technical direction and driving projects from conception to production.
  • You inspire and elevate those around you through deep technical expertise and mentorship.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: You have experience working closely with infrastructure, platform, and autonomy teams to deploy compressed models under real engineering constraints.
  • We make workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
  • Deep distillation expertise: You have extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing distillation, quantization, pruning, and model compression techniques for large-scale neural networks, with demonstrated impact in production settings.
  • Strong research and engineering foundation: A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
  • relevant hands-on experience in model distillation and efficiency is what matters most. Expert Python and PyTorch (or JAX) skills with experience in large-scale distributed training.
  • Technical leadership: You have a proven track record of setting technical direction and driving projects from conception to production. You inspire and elevate those around you through deep technical expertise and mentorship.
  • Clear communicator: You can communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to diverse audiences and drive alignment across research and engineering teams.
  • Publications at top-tier ML/CV venues (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICLR, ECCV) in model compression, efficient deep learning, or related areas.
  • The US yearly salary range for this role is: $195,000 - $286,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi (US) Inc.'s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company's compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.
  • Perks/Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).

Nice to have

  • Experience with hardware-aware optimization (TensorRT, ONNX, custom CUDA kernels, hardware-specific quantization).
  • Experience distilling large generative models (diffusion models, LLMs, VLMs, or video models).
  • Background in autonomous vehicles or robotics.

Compensation

  • $195,000 - $286,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits.
  • Waabi (US) Inc.'s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company's compensation practices.
  • The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.

Benefits

  • Unlimited Vacation.
  • Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
  • The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.

Company info

  • Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI.
  • Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.
  • Join our talented team to be a part of the future and to make an impact!

Equal opportunity

  • Waabi is an equal opportunity employer.
  • If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran st
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