Waymo · 4 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Multiverse
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$238K/yr - $302K/yr
7+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The role involves leading the development of a simulation-based 'virtual driver’s test' to identify software faults and improve the reliability of the Waymo Driver's system.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Oversee and contribute to ongoing operations and administration of the “virtual driver’s test” to support Waymo’s software deployment schedule
Make strategic investments to measure and improve the signal quality provided by the “virtual driver’s test”. Work with partner engineering and data science teams to answer whether the results of the “virtual driver’s test” are predictive of the Waymo Driver’s real-world driving behavior
Align the overall system design for your fault-discovery system with the broader best practices and infrastructure in the release simulation and evaluation ecosystem. Surface key requirements and feature requests to partner teams to inform their feature roadmaps
Apply ML models from partner teams, and optionally contribute to them yourself, to improve the efficiency of our “virtual driver’s test”: simulate the most interesting situations and report the most interesting simulation results
Partner with cross-functional teams including Data Science and Systems Engineering who will help with number crunching and expert understanding of the Waymo Driver internals
Qualification
Required
7+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
C++ proficiency
Python familiarity
SQL familiarity
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Excited about autonomous driving, Sim+Eval, eager to learn
Preferred
10+ years of industry experience, including 2+ in a quantitative- or quality- focused engineering role in which you had experience as a technical lead for a team in which you were performing tasks like developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, processing data from experiments, synthesizing conclusions, and ensuring the long term stability and health of the production system
B.S. in Computer Science
Experience working with large FAANG scale distributed systems
Experience building software reliability evaluation systems
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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