Software Engineer, Statistical Evaluation and Sampling

About the Company

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and has provided over ten million rider-only trips.

Responsibilities

• Develop importance sampling techniques to enable evaluation pipelines to deliver better signals with fewer resources
• Find signals in logs and simulations to efficiently discover rare and important events
• Build systems that systematically optimize multiple objectives under resource constraints
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and statisticians to deliver evaluation products
• Champion code health and best practices in a large and complex code base

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area
• Fluency with probability and statistics
• 2-3 years of experience navigating and modifying large code bases (C++, Python, SQL)
• Experience performing statistical analyses
• Experience building data processing pipelines
• Experience writing, reviewing, and merging code following industry standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience programming in C++
• Experience developing and evaluating sampling methods
• Experience designing, training, evaluating, and applying ML models
• Experience working in the AV industry
• PhD in a quantitative field