Software Engineer, Sim2Real

Waymo • Mountain View, CA

311d • $170,000 - $216,000

About The Position

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. Our mission within the Driver Understanding and Evaluation (DUE) team at Waymo is to develop rich metrics for understanding the behavior of the Waymo Driver in the real world.

Requirements

• 2 years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with at least 6 months of professional software engineering experience
• C++ basic competency
• Python basic competency
• SQL basic competency
• Excited about autonomous driving, Simulation + Eval

Nice To Haves

• 1 year of industry or post-doc experience in a quantitative or quality focused engineering role in which you had experience developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, processing data from experiments, summarizing conclusions.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science
• Experience working with large FAANG scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build the infrastructure to administer a 'virtual driver's test' for the Waymo Driver.
• Design, implement, and operate scalable simulation data pipelines to evaluate the driving capability of the Waymo Driver.
• Improve the signal quality provided by the 'virtual driver's test'.
• Improve the quality of individual simulations and that of the overarching simulation workflows.
• Try to answer whether the results of the 'virtual driver's test' are predictive of the Waymo Driver's real-world driving behavior.
• Apply ML models from partner teams, and optionally contribute to them yourself, to improve the efficiency of our 'virtual driver's test': simulate the most interesting situations and report the most interesting simulation results.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous Company benefits program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees