Software Engineer, Waymo

Sim2Real

$170-216k

SQL

Python

C++

Entry, Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, California,

Autonomous driving technology

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Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Be an early applicant

$170-216k

SQL

Python

C++

Entry, Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, California,

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

2 years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with at least 6 months of professional software engineering experience
C++ basic competency
Python basic competency
SQL basic competency
Excited about autonomous driving, Simulation + Eval

Desirable

1 year of industry or post-doc experience in a quantitative or quality focused engineering role in which you had experience developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, processing data from experiments, summarizing conclusions
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Experience working with large FAANG scale distributed systems

What the job involves

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Software Engineering Manager
Build the infrastructure to administer a "virtual driver's test" for the Waymo Driver. Design, implement, and operate scalable simulation data pipelines to evaluate the driving capability of the Waymo Driver
Improve the signal quality provided by the "virtual driver's test". Improve the quality of individual simulations and that of the overarching simulation workflows. Try 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

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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