Software Engineer, Waymo

Onboard Evaluation

$158-200k

SQL

Kubernetes

Python

Airflow

C++

Jenkins

Redshift

Spark

Snowflake

BigQuery

RDS

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous driving technology

Job no longer available

Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Job no longer available

$158-200k

SQL

Kubernetes

Python

Airflow

C++

Jenkins

Redshift

Spark

Snowflake

BigQuery

RDS

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area
Ability o navigate complex systems and pursue open-ended problems to completion
3+ years of industry experience with
Building data processing pipelines
C++
Python for modeling and/or statistical computing
Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

Desirable

Experience building and/or supporting modern microservice architectures (Kubernetes, AWS: EKS, ECS, ECR, RDS, S3, ALB, SNS, etc, GCP: GKE, Artifact Registry, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS, ALB, Pub/Sub, etc.)
Experience building and distributed data processing pipelines (Spark, Beam, Airflow, etc.) and using SQL with large-scale warehouses (Snowflake, RedShift, BigQuery, etc.)
Exposure to ad-hoc data analysis tools for rapid modeling and prototyping
Excitement about detailed detective work in service of finding subtle errors

What the job involves

The Planner Evaluation team works on one of the main challenges in autonomous driving: improving the quality of the software that drives the car. We are looking for experienced data-minded software engineers to help us understand and improve the reliability of Waymo's robotics systems so we can further improve Waymo's safety-first mission. If you are excited about using the large value of rich data to improve the reliability of our software, this is the role for you!
Develop signals that are precursors to severe reliability issues
Root cause subtle bugs and help fill gaps between on-road and Simulation issue discovery
Extend our reliability discovery pipelines to cover new use cases
Collaborate with engineers in the Simulator, Planner, and Perception teams to solve complex cross-functional problems
Use ADV hardware to find pernicious and bedeviling bugs
Drive improvements to issue-discovery-to-fix processes

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2024

$5.6bn

SERIES C

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $11.1bn

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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