Senior Software Engineer, Planner Reasoning

2 weeks ago


San Francisco CA, United States Waymo Full time

Senior Software Engineer, Planner Reasoning Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer, Planner Reasoning role at Waymo. Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google SelfDriving 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 ridehail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rideronly 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 Reasoning Team builds technology that has an extremely broad impact across the Waymo organization and is the team most directly responsible for the Waymo Drivers behavior. You will have an impact on scaling our Waymo Driver's performance and maintaining and improving our excellent safety record as Waymo expands to more cities. Responsibilities Develop business logic software to evolve driving performance of the Waymo Driver. Work crossfunctionally on safety, road rules compliance, and ride quality. Develop and implement methods to evaluate and improve Waymo driving behaviors. Evaluate new proposed changes utilizing a range of datadriven methods. Analyze large amounts of data of realworld and simulated driving, understanding, characterizing and clustering the performance of the Waymo Driver. Interact with ML models to maximize their impact towards solving driving problems. Qualifications Bachelors in Computer Science, Robotics, Math, Physics, Statistics (or similar technical field of study) or equivalent practical experience. 6+ years of Software Engineering experience in Python or C++. Experience debugging and improving live, production systems. Experience with designing scalable software architectures for complex systems. Demonstrated alignment with Waymos values and behaviors. Preferred Proficiency in C++. Experience with largescale data/ML applications. Evaluation experience, contributing to scalable evaluation workflows. Experience with autonomous systems. Salary Range $204,000$259,000 USD (base). Seat location, experience, and skill level influence starting pay. Remote work is an option where allowed. Benefits Waymo employees are eligible for a discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Seniority Level MidSenior level Employment Type Fulltime #J-18808-Ljbffr



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