Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning

About the Company

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 to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives.

Responsibilities

• Investigate driving behavior issues from logs and understand the root cause
• Improve performance of the state of the art ML models in Planner
• Develop foundational frameworks that help advancement of the Waymo Driver's capabilities
• Expand the impact of ML models while preserving interpretability and behavioral guarantees
• Directly contribute to solving some of the most challenging driving situations in the long tail

Requirements

• Masters or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a similar discipline
• Proficiency in C++ or Python
• Experience with Machine Learning models in production systems

Preferred Qualifications

• AV or Robotics experience
• 8+ years of Software Engineering experience in complex systems