Systems Test Engineer, Waymo
Sensing
$183-232k
+ Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
Autonomous driving technology
Be an early applicant
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$183-232k
+ Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for talented teammates who’ll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results
- A bachelor’s degree in physics, engineering, or other technical field OR equivalent practical experience
- An advanced degree OR 5 years of equivalent practical experience
- Experience analyzing data using Python or other high level language (e.g. Matlab, SQL, C++)
- Experience in writing testable and maintainable software running in production level environment
- Experience collaborating in projects with multiple non-colocated contributors and stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience with systems engineering verification and validation (V&V) methods, through test campaign coordination and execution
- Familiarity with robotics, sensing, optics, or perception technologies
- Experience debugging complex systems
- Experience with simulation-based testing
- Experience with autonomous vehicles or other autonomous systems
- Experience with technical program management
What the job involves
- In this hybrid role, you will report to a Laser Testing Systems Engineer
- Own a significant portion of the sensor (lidar, camera, radar) verification and validation activities to support qualification of fully autonomous operations, for both recurring software releases and new hardware prototypes
- Design, execute and debug automated tests across multiple platforms to verify sensing requirements, expose issues, and identify root causes
- Work with systems engineers, systems test engineers, software engineers, hardware engineers and external vendor teams to strategize on, create, standardize and optimize automated testing methodologies supporting periodic onboard software deployment
- Write reusable, high quality, sensor data analysis and test automation software (Python and/or C++)
- Develop cohesive verification and validation plans, including test plans
- Analyze test data and communicate the results in technical reports and presentations
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
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 values
- Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
- Safety is our foundation
- We pioneer
- Act with thoughtful urgency
- Respect each other
- Be responsible owners
- We’re stronger together
- Optionality creates opportunities
- Always be learning
- Celebrate progress
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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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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