Software Engineer, Planner (Robotics)

TL;DR

Software Engineer, Planner (Robotics): Developing safe, smooth, and predictable autonomous driving behaviors with an accent on motion planning and real-time algorithm execution. Focus on framing open-ended real-world problems into engineering solutions and scaling them via large-scale data pipelines.

Location: On-site or Hybrid in Mountain View, San Francisco, or Pittsburgh, USA

Company

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company building the Waymo Driver to provide fully autonomous ride-hailing services.

What you will do

• Develop algorithms ensuring car behavior is safe, smooth, and predictable in complex social situations like merging and navigating narrow roads.
• Process noisy, uncertain, and incomplete information to make real-time driving decisions.
• Frame open-ended real-world challenges into well-defined engineering problems.
• Develop and scale tools, algorithms, and evaluation mechanisms using Google-sized data pipelines.
• Optimize and refine software for real-time execution on vehicle hardware.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, or a similar technical field.
• 5+ years of general software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in C++ with a focus on writing efficient code.
• Experience collaborating across different multidisciplinary teams.

Nice to have

• MS in Computer Science, ML, or Robotics.
• Experience solving motion planning or related robotics problems.
• Experience solving or evaluating ML-based systems.