Software Engineer, Maneuvering Tech (Robotics)

Location: Hybrid role in Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California; or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Salary: $213,000–$263,000 USD annual base salary, plus eligibility for an annual bonus, equity incentive plan, and company benefits.

Company

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and fully autonomous ride-hail services through the Waymo Driver.

What you will do

• Develop software that makes autonomous vehicle behavior safe, smooth, and predictable for other road users.
• Handle complex driving situations involving merging, negotiating narrow roads, and other social interactions.
• Frame open-ended real-world problems as well-defined engineering problems.
• Build tools, algorithms, and evaluation mechanisms for autonomous driving systems.
• Scale solutions to Google-sized data pipelines and refine them for real-time execution on vehicles.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, and systems engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of general software engineering experience.
• Strong C++ programming skills with an emphasis on efficient code.
• Experience collaborating across different teams.
• Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement at one of the listed US locations.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field.
• Experience solving motion-planning or related robotics problems.
• Experience building or evaluating machine-learning-based systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a creative team focused on Level 4 autonomous driving.
• Collaborate with hardware and systems engineers on complex technical challenges.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
• Equity incentive plan and company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.