Waymo · 3 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Evaluation Applications
Mountain View, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$238K/yr - $302K/yr
5+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Planner Evaluation team to develop signals that measure the performance of the Waymo driver and improve the quality of the onboard software stack.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Develop signals to measure the performance and driving qualities of the Waymo driver, using a range of techniques including statistics, math, physics, algorithms and machine learning
Use simulation creatively and mine real world driving logs to measure driving performance
Design and implement methods to make a stronger connection between onboard software changes and simulated outcomes
Champion code health and best practices in a large and complex code base
Analyze data and make recommendations on how to improve metric quality and interpretability
Collaborate with other engineers, data scientists, statisticians and the leadership team to deliver evaluation products and help make data driven decisions
Quickly prove out the efficacy of added coverage, and strive to hand off solutions in a robust way for customer teams to own their own evaluation
Qualification
Required
BS/MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area
Strong self-motivation to navigate complex systems and pursue open-ended problems to completion
Willingness to move quickly between verticals for different internal customers. Work is more likely to be short projects rather than protected 6+ month efforts
5+ years of industry experience with
Navigating and modifying a large code base containing a variety of languages, such as C++, Python and SQL
Performing statistical analyses
Building data processing pipelines
Writing, reviewing, and merging code following industry standards for code health and maintainability
Quant/data fluency is a top requirement
Preferred
Experience coding in C++
Experience with ML
Experience with A/B experiment infrastructure
Experience building and validating metrics to measure quality in complex systems
Exposure to ad-hoc data analysis tools for rapid modeling and prototyping
Experience working in the AV industry
Benefits
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
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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