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 Onboard Frameworks Team provides the building blocks used to implement Waymo's onboard software stack. The team works closely with onboard engineers to design, launch, and land key APIs, development workflows, and tools to accelerate the pace of development across the company.
In this Hybrid role, you will report to a Software Engineer.
You will:
- Design, implement, and deploy core C++ APIs supporting all of: asynchrony management, experimentation, multi-platform deployments, data extraction workflows, debug journeys, and system visualization
- Holistically understand the lifecycle of Waymo's code and how it is used, to optimize it across all operating environments- on the car and in simulation
- Work with onboard teams to understand pain points, opportunities for improvement, and identify collaborations to improve Waymo's velocity
- Guide onboard teams on how to set up their software to be more efficient, flexible, scalable, and capable of adapting to Waymo's needs
You have:
- Bachelor's in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 3 years of experience as a software engineer or similar roles
- 3 years of experience in C++
- 2 year of experience in software infrastructure/systems
We prefer:
- 2 years of experience working in a highly complex system supporting by hundreds of engineers and their tooling needs
- Experience migrating software systems with zero downtime
- Experience with performance analysis, including profiling, benchmarking, and optimization
- Experience in robotics
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives.
Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.
