Software Engineer, Waymo

Data & Evaluation, Mapping

$204-259k

Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan

Tensorflow

C++

Flow

Data Flow

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous driving technology

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Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Be an early applicant

$204-259k

Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan

Tensorflow

C++

Flow

Data Flow

Junior, 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

B.S. in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Experience with statistical analysis
Experience with large-scale data processing using frameworks like Google Data Flow or Apache Beam
Willingness to own problems end-to-end and work on various parts of the system
A passion for good software engineering

Desirable

M.S. or Ph.D in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Experience with Tensorflow and/or C++

What the job involves

Evaluate and launch machine learning models that automatically generate map from raw data
Work with onboard teams to evolve Waymo’s mapping format to make it more automation friendly
Apply statistical analysis to validate large-scale changes
Build backend infrastructure for storing and processing many forms of map data
Scale our systems to support mapping the whole world

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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