Senior Software Engineer - Mapping - Field Response

Waymo•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

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 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’s 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 Waymo Mapping team's goal is to build a high resolution map of the world to support safe autonomous driving. We work on creating the map using a combination of automatic and manual techniques and build the infrastructure to store, process, and distribute the map. Our team collaborates with several other Waymo teams that consume map data.

Requirements

Backend engineer with experience building server-side infrastructure and data processing
Solid coding skills (C++ preferred)
> 4 years of total experience
Strong sense of ownership and ability to thrive in ambiguity
Proven track record of being able to apply a broad range of skills to effectively solve business problems

Nice To Haves

Experience applying ML and data analysis
Master’s in Computer Science, Robotics or related field

Responsibilities

Own business-critical systems for taking low latency action in response to signals from Waymo’s fleet
Develop Mapping Change Detection using a blend of ML and data analysis
Build robust backend infrastructure and data processing that will scale with Waymo’s growth
Make high-impact contributions across Waymo’s Mapping stack including infrastructure development, tooling improvements, and algorithm advances

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