Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead Manager - Mapping

Waymo • Mountain View, CA

65d • $238,000 - $302,000 • Hybrid

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

• Experienced manager and technical leader
• > 7 years of total experience, > 2 years experience as a manager
• Proven track record of leading a team to solve difficult technical challenges
• Experience with large-scale data processing using frameworks like Google Data Flow or Apache Beam
• Willingness to own problems end-to-end and work on various parts of the system
• A passion for good software engineering

Nice To Haves

• M.S. or Ph.D in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in Mapping and Localization
• Experience with Tensorflow and/or C++

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers to help us scale our mapping infrastructure and to transform the mapping schema
• Evaluate and launch machine learning models that automatically generate map from raw data
• Work with onboard teams to evolve Waymo's mapping format to make it more automation friendly
• Build backend infrastructure for storing and processing many forms of map data
• Scale our systems to support mapping the whole world

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous Company benefits program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees