Waymo · 5 days ago
Staff Software Engineer, Planner Reasoning
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$238K/yr - $302K/yrWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Planner Reasoning Team builds technology that has an extremely broad impact across the Waymo organization and is responsible for the Waymo Driver’s behavior, focusing on scaling performance and safety as the service expands.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Working closely with leads and TLMs in the org to design and implement horizontal solutions to solve behavioral driving issues in new geos
Build quantitative evaluation techniques to drive data driven development
Work closely with partners in Mapping, Product, and the rest of the Onboard stack
Qualification
Required
PhD, Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field
Experience manipulating and analyzing large datasets
Experience with working and solving design problems that cut across multiple components. High quality API design with an eye towards eval and data driven techniques
Preferred
Experience in the autonomous driving domain, including areas like motion planning or perception
Proficiency in SQL
Proficiency in C++
Evaluation experience, contributing to scalable eval workflows and building metrics for ML models
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.
Founded in 2009
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
Annabel Chang
Head of State Policy & Government Relations
Recent News
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