Waymo · 4 months ago
Senior Software Engineer - Multiverse
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$204K/yr - $259K/yr
5+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on improving mobility and safety through its advanced driving systems. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance the infrastructure for evaluating the Waymo Driver's capabilities through virtual testing and simulation. The role involves designing scalable data pipelines and applying machine learning models to improve simulation quality and efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Build the infrastructure to administer a "virtual driver's test" for the Waymo Driver. Design, implement, and operate scalable simulation data pipelines to evaluate the driving capability of the Waymo Driver
Improve the signal quality provided by the "virtual driver's test". Improve the quality of individual simulations and that of the overarching simulation workflows. Try to answer whether the results of the "virtual driver's test" are predictive of the Waymo Driver's real-world driving behavior
Apply ML models from partner teams, and optionally contribute to them yourself, to improve the efficiency of our "virtual driver's test": simulate the most interesting situations and report the most interesting simulation results
Qualification
Required
5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
C++ proficiency
Python familiarity
SQL familiarity
Excited about autonomous driving, Simulation + Eval
Preferred
7+ years of industry experience or 3+ years post-doc experience in a quantitative- or quality- focused engineering role in which you had experience as a technical lead for a team in which you were performing tasks like developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, processing data from experiments, synthesizing conclusions, and ensuring the long term stability and health of the production system
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Experience working with large FAANG scale distributed systems
Benefits
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
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Co-Chief Executive Officer
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