Waymo · 23 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Planner
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. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will work on ensuring the safe and predictable behavior of autonomous vehicles, framing real-world problems into engineering challenges, and developing solutions for real-time applications.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Work with a creative team of people who ensure that the behavior of our cars is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users, which includes gracefully handling many complex situations involving social aspects (merging, negotiating narrow roads), while dealing with noisy, uncertain, and incomplete information
Frame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined engineering problems; develop tools, algorithms and evaluation mechanisms; scale them to Google-sized data pipelines; and refine them to run in real-time on the cars
Qualification
Required
BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years general software engineering experience programming in C++ with efficient code
Experience collaborating with different teams
Preferred
MS in Computer Science, ML Robotics, similar technical field of study
General software engineering experience solving motion planning or related robotics problems
Experience solving or evaluating ML-based systems
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
Recent News
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