Senior Software Engineer, Waymo
Planner Evaluation
$192-243k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Be an early applicant
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$192-243k
+ 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
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area
- 5 years of industry experience
- Python, especially for modeling and/or statistical computing
- Experience with tools for large-scale parallel compute and data manipulation (Apache Beam, SQL)
- Experience evaluating the quality of machine learning prediction at scale
Desirable
- PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area
- 7+ years of industry experience building large-scale ML systems
- Comfort with writing production code in Tensorflow / JAX
- Experience with large-scale parallel compute
What the job involves
- The Planner Evaluation team works on one of the key challenges in autonomous driving: improving the quality of the software that drives the car. We are looking for quantitative-minded software engineers to help us understand and improve the performance of our ML and robotics systems
- In this hybrid role, you will report to the Senior Manager of Planner Evaluation
- Develop signals to measure the performance of large-scale machine learning models that power our self-driving car's behavior, using a range of techniques including statistics, math, physics, and machine learning
- Use simulation creatively to measure driving performance of novel ML algorithms
- Work closely with statisticians, machine learning engineers, and roboticists to develop novel solutions to open problems
- Build data pipelines for signal discovery, data labeling, feature extraction and metric computation based on large-scale simulations
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.
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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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