Staff Software Engineer, Waymo
Simulator
$226-286k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Open for applications
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$226-286k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on experience building a popular user facing (internal or external) product
- Experience on backend knowledge such workflows, database, SQL, production monitoring
- Design and coding skills
- In C++ or Python
Desirable
- 5+ years of experience working on full stack or working with front-end engineers
- Previous Technical Lead experience
What the job involves
- The Vehicle and Automated Driving Realism (VADR) team ensures that simulated self-driving cars mirror real-world driving, forming a keystone of our simulation fidelity
- Our product faithfully reproduces driving events and discovers realistic driving behaviors in simulation
- It works with a significant part of Waymo's onboard software stack and reproduces and is used by the majority of our engineering team, affecting Waymo's business
- You will report to the Software Engineering Manager
- Design the long-term architecture and software features to fit the product for an increasing number of internal customers
- Design a smooth experience of how our product can fit into the Waymo eval tooling eco-system
- Continue to find novel ways to improve the driving realism of Waymo simulation
- Improve / monitor the scalability and the reliability of the product
- Mentor other (senior) engineers in the team
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
Articles
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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