Waymo · 1 day ago
Software Engineer, Multiverse
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$170K/yr - $216K/yr
3+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Multiverse team is responsible for the end-to-end evaluation of the Waymo Driver's software, focusing on building infrastructure for virtual driver tests and improving simulation workflows to ensure safety and reliability. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams and applying machine learning models to enhance testing 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 and/or real world monitoring in order to evaluate the driving capability of the Waymo Driver, and at low latency in the real world
Improve the signal quality provided by the “virtual driver’s test” and measured in the real world. Measure and improve the quality of individual simulations as well as that of the overarching simulation workflows. Seek 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
Apply software engineering best practices in order to improve code health and developer experience in the “virtual driver’s test” and the real world monitoring development ecosystems
Partner with cross-functional teams including Data Science and Systems Engineering who will help with number crunching and expert understanding of the Waymo Driver internals
Qualification
Required
3+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with software engineering experience
C++ proficiency
Python familiarity
SQL familiarity
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Excited about autonomous driving, Sim+Eval, eager to learn
Preferred
Industry or doctoral experience in a quantitative- or quality- focused engineering role 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’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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