Senior Software Engineer, Quantitative Evaluations

Senior Software Engineer, Quantitative Evaluations

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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo DriverThe World's Most Experienced Driverto improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymos fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases.

The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

The Planner Evaluation team works on one of the key challenges in autonomous driving : measuring and improving the quality of the software that drives the car. We are looking for experienced data?minded software engineers and data scientists to help us improve how we characterize and evaluate changes to the Onboard software stack (Planner, Perception, etc). If you are passionate about autonomous vehicles and how to use rich, complex data to drive decision making, this is the role for you!

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Senior Engineering Manager.

You Will

• Develop novel methodologies and metrics to measure simulation realism across multiple simulator technologies (e.g., agent behavior, sensor rendering, environmental effects).
• Design scalable and efficient platforms and pipelines for measuring simulation realism across massive datasets.
• Research and implement systems that can guide simulator development priorities.
• Collaborate with world?class engineering and research teams who develop and use large?scale ML models to enhance simulator fidelity.
• Play an important role in a collaborative engineering team dedicated to building a high?fidelity simulator that directly powers the safety validation and performance evaluation of the Waymo Driver.

You Have

Proficiency in programming in Python or C++, including experience with relevant libraries for data handling and computation (e.g., NumPy, Pandas for Python).

Identify potential system performance or realism gaps (e.g., from specific examples or initial data exploration) and create data?driven approaches to investigate them.

Experience building software pipelines for data processing, system evaluation, or metric computation, in the context of large?scale systems.

We Prefer

Salary Range : $204,000$259,000 USD.

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