Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.
The Marketplace area scope encompasses everything having to do with making the most of Waymo’s in-service supply and demand. This includes our three primary decision-making systems (Pricing, Matching, Positioning) as well as the set of foundational models that feed into them, the marketplace experimentation and data layer, and the marketplace intelligence layer (our reporting, analytics, and marketplace experimentation suite).
In this hybrid role, you will report to our Senior Software Engineering Manager.
You will:
- Implement and scale the backend for Waymo's core ride-hailing services. This collection of systems manages trip requests; provides APIs to client apps and other services; calculates pickup and ride times; matches right vehicles to riders; calculates the price of rides; positions Waymo’s vehicle for future demands
- Work closely with product data scientists to design and implement various optimizations in the area of matching and pricing for ride-hailing services.
- Develop infrastructure for automatically training and deploying sophisticated optimization and ML models to make real-time decisions for pricing, matching, and positioning.
- Develop experimentation, monitoring and analysis infrastructure for ongoing deployed models.
- Develop expertise in and make use of various Google technologies, like Borg, Spanner, Flume, and custom-built systems for our specific problems.
You have:
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of experience programming in backend coding languages
We prefer:
- Experience in C++
- MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in developing low latency, large-scale, user facing distributed systems
- Experience in developing machine learning/optimization infrastructure and pipelines
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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.
Salary Range
$158,000—$200,000 USD
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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.
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