Senior / Staff ML Training Optimization Engineer

About the role

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 You will... - Build standardized distributed training frameworks for research and production, drive our training towards new levels of stability and efficiency. - Comprehensively profile model runtime and memory to pinpoint performance bottlenecks. - Identify and evaluate emerging technologies that can be adopted into Waabi’s training and inference frameworks. Examples include designing new CUDA kernels, quantization-aware training and inference, and compilation/deployment techniques. - Work with researchers and ML engineers on best-practices for optimal resource usage. - Create and improve tooling and dashboards to ensure b

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