Waymo · 1 month ago
Senior Software Engineer, Driving Behaviors
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$204K/yr - $259K/yr
5+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The role involves developing metrics and models to enhance the performance and safety of the self-driving system, as well as integrating and deploying these models on fleet-wide data.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Develop metrics and models to evaluate and enhance the performance, safety and scalability of our self driving system
Evaluate new models or methods to assess their performance and applicability to problems
Find new ways to gather the required data needed to improve our metrics and models
Communicate benefits and limitations of new models and metrics to partner teams
Integrate and deploy metrics and models on fleet-wide data
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in Software Engineering for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other complex hardware/software systems
Experience testing such systems at all levels from unit tests to comprehensive end-to-end test campaigns
Solid understanding of physics, geometry, and dynamics
Proficiency in C++ and Python
Ability to learn and utilize new frameworks quickly, employing AI tools or otherwise
Experience training new applications on existing ML architectures and improving existing applications
Preferred
8+ years industry experience
Proficiency in SQL
Experience building and testing autonomous systems
Experience using LLMs and VLMs in production environments
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
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (231)
2024 (175)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$27.1BKey Investors
Alphabet,Dragoneer Investment Group,DST Global,Sequoia CapitalAlphabetFidelity,Perry Creek Capital,T. Rowe Price
2026-02-02Series D· $16B
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Annabel Chang
Director of U.S. State and Local Public Policy and Political Campaigns
Recent News
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