Senior Software Engineer, Maneuver Reasoning Evaluation
Mountain View, California, United States. San Francisco, California, United States. New York City, New York, United States Full-Time Software Engineering 3491
Senior Software Engineer, Maneuver Reasoning Evaluation
- 3491
- On Site
- Mountain View, California, United States
- San Francisco, California, United States
- New York City, New York, United States
- Software Engineering
- Full-Time
- Mid Career
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.
Planner Reasoning is responsible for Waymo's high-level motion planning, encoding Waymo's desired driving behaviors onboard and offboard. Our mission is to build the driving logic needed to deliver a safe, excellent Waymo Driver at scale. Whether we're building motion planning algorithms, defining behavioral eval, or monitoring production driving - we continuously strive to make autonomous vehicles safer, more comfortable, and more predictable. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer, Evaluation within our Maneuver Reasoning team. In this role, you will be an accelerator for evaluation and data driven-development within Planner Reasoning.
You will:
- Drive Product Value through Engineering: Collaborate closely with Product teams to design and implement engineering solutions for user-facing features. You'll quantitatively evaluate their value proposition by defining key metrics, designing for counterfactual logging, and implementing data slicing to uncover important trade-offs.
- Champion Data-Driven Decisions: Extract meaningful quantitative signals from vast datasets, partnering with Data Science and Data Infrastructure teams to build and leverage powerful analytical tools. Success requires strong data fluency, including an understanding of A/B testing, precision, and recall concepts.
- Influence Core Vehicle Software: This role extends beyond pure analysis, offering a unique opportunity to contribute directly to the development of critical vehicle software. You'll influence foundational technologies that impact both onboard (vehicle-deployed) and offboard systems, directly shaping the Waymo platform.
You must have:
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, or similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of Software Engineering experience
- Proficiency in C++/Python
- Fluency in data-driven development
- Experience in solving real-world robotics problems (driving, or similar domains)
- Experience in translating product requirements to engineering roadmaps and building data-driven techniques to track performance and improvements to the system
We prefer:
- Experience with applied ML (especially building eval that enables ML model development)
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
We appreciate your interest in Waymo. Waymo is an equal employment opportunity employer, committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive workplace for all employees. Waymo does not discriminate against, and prohibits harassment of, any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law. Waymo will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. Waymo is committed to ensuring equal opportunity for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please let the recruiting team know or email waymo-candidatesupport@google.com. (This email address is intended to be used only for requesting accommodations as part of the application process. Other inquiries will not receive a response.)
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Our people are at the heart of everything we do. At Waymo, you can enjoy top-notch medical, dental and vision insurance, mental wellness support, gym membership, and special wellness programs.
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Your financial peace of mind is important to us. At Waymo, we offer competitive compensation, bonus opportunities, equity, employees provident fund, and lots of other perks and employee discounts.
Flexibility and time off
Take the time you need to relax and recharge. Enjoy the flexibility to work from another location for four weeks per year. We support an on-site or hybrid work model and offer remote working opportunities, paid time off, bereavement, sick, and parental leave.
Supporting families
When it comes to growing your family or caring for your loved ones, you have our full support. Enhanced leave options include 26 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 18 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.
Community and personal development
At Waymo, you'll find a range of opportunities to grow, connect, and give back. We offer education reimbursement, personal and professional development, mentorship, and other ways to connect through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), other internal groups, and even time off to volunteer.
Cool perks
Access to Google offices, cafes, wellness centers, massages, and so much more. To support your wellbeing at home, you can enjoy at-home fitness and cooking classes, and more.
Health and wellness
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. At Waymo, you can enjoy top-notch medical, dental and vision insurance, mental wellness support, gym membership, and special wellness programs.
Financial wellness
Your financial peace of mind is important to us. At Waymo, we offer competitive compensation, bonus opportunities, equity, employees provident fund, and lots of other perks and employee discounts.
Flexibility and time off
Take the time you need to relax and recharge. Enjoy the flexibility to work from another location for four weeks per year. We support an on-site or hybrid work model and offer remote working opportunities, paid time off, bereavement, sick, and parental leave.
Supporting families
When it comes to growing your family or caring for your loved ones, you have our full support. Enhanced leave options include 26 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 18 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.
Community and personal development
At Waymo, you'll find a range of opportunities to grow, connect, and give back. We offer education reimbursement, personal and professional development, mentorship, and other ways to connect through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), other internal groups, and even time off to volunteer.
Cool perks
Access to Google offices, cafes, wellness centers, massages, and so much more. To support your wellbeing at home, you can enjoy at-home fitness and cooking classes, and more.
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