PhD Researcher in Autonomous Driving Technology

1 day ago


Mountain View, California, United States Waymo Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled PhD researcher in data science to join our team as an autonomous vehicle intern. As a key member of our research team, you will be responsible for evaluating the driving quality of our Waymo Driver, with a particular focus on software reliability. Your tasks may include:

  • Evaluating and proposing improvements to automatic clustering algorithms for reliability issues;
  • Improving importance sampling techniques to maximize discoveries of novel reliability issues;
  • Building real-time monitoring of reliability issues in scaled rider-only deployments, especially focusing on novel regression monitoring during the ramp-up periods of new release candidates.


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