Waymo

Software Engineer, Planner (L4)

Waymo • $130K — $180K *
Mountain View, CA 94040In-Person
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years experience in software engineering, specifically in C++
  • Proven experience in collaborative team environments

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a creative team to enhance vehicle behavior for safety and smoothness
  • Translate real-world challenges into defined engineering problems
  • Develop algorithms and tools for vehicle behavior evaluation
  • Scale solutions for large data processing
  • Optimize algorithms for real-time performance on vehicles

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge vehicle technology
  • Engage with diverse teams and tackle complex engineering challenges
Full Job Description
In this hybrid role, you will report to Technical Lead Manager

You will:
  • Work with a creative team of people who ensure that the behavior of our cars is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users, which includes gracefully handling many complex situations involving social aspects (merging, negotiating narrow roads), while dealing with noisy, uncertain, and incomplete information.
  • Frame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined engineering problems; develop tools, algorithms and evaluation mechanisms; scale them to Google-sized data pipelines; and refine them to run in real-time on the cars.

You have:
  • BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years general software engineering experience programming in C++ with efficient code
  • Experience collaborating with different teams

We prefer:
  • MS in Computer Science, ML Robotics, similar technical field of study
  • General software engineering experience solving motion planning or related robotics problems
  • Experience solving or evaluating ML-based systems

About Waymo

Waymo LLC is a self-driving technology development company. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and provides ride-hailing services through its Waymo One program. The company has been testing its self-driving technology on public roads since 2009 and has logged millions of miles of autonomous driving. Waymo has partnerships with several automakers and has been working on developing autonomous trucks for use in logistics.
Learn more about Waymo
Size
2,000 employees
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Founded
2009
* Ladders Estimates

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