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.
Waymo's Systems Engineering team works together to blend software and hardware systems in groundbreaking new ways. We set the high performance standards that ensure our vehicles run smoothly and keep passengers safe, then design and perform the tests that validate that performance. We're looking for talented teammates who’ll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results.
In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Staff Test Engineer, Driving Behaviors.
You will:
- Develop metrics and models to evaluate and enhance the performance, safety and scalability of our self driving system
- Evaluate new models or methods to assess their performance and applicability to problems
- Find new ways to gather the required data needed to improve our metrics and models
- Communicate benefits and limitations of new models and metrics to partner teams
- Integrate and deploy metrics and models on fleet-wide data
You have:
- 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other complex hardware/software systems
- Experience testing such systems at all levels from unit tests to comprehensive end-to-end test campaigns.
- Solid understanding of physics, geometry, and dynamics
- Proficiency in C++ and Python
- Ability to learn and utilize new frameworks quickly, employing AI tools or otherwise
- Experience training new applications on existing ML architectures and improving existing applications
We prefer:
- 8+ years industry experience
- Proficiency in SQL
- Experience building and testing autonomous systems
- Experience using LLMs and VLMs in production environments
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in Test Engineering for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex systems
- Strong background working with data
- Solid understanding of physics, geometry, and dynamics
- Proficiency in C++, Python, and SQL
- Enthusiasm to understand a complex system
- Ability to learn new frameworks quickly
What We Do
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.
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