Staff Software Engineer

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

• Lead the development of an end-to-end system that administers a simulation-based "virtual driver's test" to discover software faults.
• Oversee and contribute to ongoing operations and administration of the virtual driver's test to support software deployment schedules.
• Make strategic investments to measure and improve signal quality and work with partner teams to ensure results are predictive of real-world behavior.
• Align system design with broader infrastructure in the release simulation and evaluation ecosystem.
• Apply and potentially contribute to ML models to improve the efficiency of simulation results.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including Data Science and Systems Engineering.

Requirements

• 7+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in C++.
• Familiarity with Python and SQL.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Passion for autonomous driving and simulation/evaluation.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years in a quantitative or quality-focused engineering role as a technical lead.
• Experience developing hypotheses, designing experiments, and processing experimental data.
• B.S. in Computer Science.
• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience building software reliability evaluation systems.