Software Engineer, Planner Reasoning (Autonomous Driving)

TL;DR

Software Engineer, Planner Reasoning (Autonomous Driving): Developing business logic software to enhance the driving performance of the Waymo Driver with an accent on safety, road rules compliance, and ride quality. Focus on analyzing large datasets and interacting with machine learning models to improve driving behaviors.

Location: Onsite in Mountain View or San Francisco, California, United States

Salary Range: $170,000—$216,000 USD

Company

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on building the Waymo Driver to improve mobility and safety.

What you will do

• Develop business logic software to evolve driving performance of the Waymo Driver
• Work cross-functionally on safety, road rules compliance, and ride quality
• Develop and implement methods to evaluate and improve Waymo driving behaviors
• Evaluate new proposed changes utilizing a range of data-driven methods
• Analyze large amounts of data of real world and simulated driving
• Interact with ML models to maximize their impact towards solving driving problems

Requirements

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Robotics, Math, Physics, Statistics, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of Software Engineering experience in Python or C++
• Experience debugging and improving live, production systems
• Experience with designing scalable software architectures for complex systems
• Demonstrated alignment with Waymo’s Values and Behaviors