Senior Software Engineer - Multiverse

Waymo•Mountain View, CA

7d•$213,000 - $263,000

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 RO Performance Team is accountable for the largest metrics system deployment in the AV industry. The team manages data pipelines that monitor Waymo’s AV fleet in the real world at various latencies: from minutes to hours; supporting critical business decisions for deployments in new markets and identifying emergent business critical challenges. In addition, the same pipeline technologies are deployed for the virtual world to measure key outcomes from Waymo’s massive scale simulations, generating insights to support new Driver releases. Important objectives for the next couple of years include: Reliably scaling as the business scales, Waymo is in its fast expansion phase and systems have to be built to support 100x growth. Timeliness: As Waymo’s deployments accelerate across the globe, time to first detection needs to consistently improve. Comprehensive coverage: Expanding into new weather conditions and new markets brings new challenges. Increasing the metric and detection offerings to meet these challenges is key to achieving our business goals. The team works closely with many other teams such as: metrics development teams including large AI deployments, System engineers and Data scientists that produce definitions and quality controls, infrastructure and UI teams that support underlying capabilities, product teams to stay sensitive to changing business needs, and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams to maintain high system uptime.

Requirements

5+ 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
Excited about autonomous driving, Simulation + Eval

Nice To Haves

7+ years of industry experience or 3+ years post-doc experience 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.Sc. in Computer Science
Experience working with large FAANG scale distributed systems.