Senior Software Engineer, Perception Future Sensing Platforms

About the role

The Perception team at Waymo builds technology that powers the Waymo Driver. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We conduct research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling software engineers like you to develop multi-modal models and techniques at scale.

Responsibilities

• Work with a creative team of people who are responsible for the bring-up of Perception SW on new hardware platforms (vehicles, sensors, compute)
• Evolve existing SW to abstract away superfluous differences between various sensor hardware and encapsulate hardware-specific logic, by writing design docs, gathering feedback, implementing the change and testing it and monitoring its continued health and maintaining it during its lifespan
• Rapidly prototype and run de-risking experiments for the next-generation Perception SW stack that is designed to be more portable to the new sensor HW
• Maintain and run evaluations of existing or hypothetical new sensor hardware to help make decisions on sensor HW options. Write up analyses that summarize high-level recommendations using the evidence from these evaluations

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong experience programming in C++ with robust and efficient code
• Strong software architecture skills
• Experience with sensor data processing (Lidar, camera, or Radar)
• Experience with building, integrating, debugging and evaluating ML-based systems
• Experience with bring-up of new sensors or vehicle platforms

Preferred qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with autonomous vehicles (L4) or ADAS systems (L2/L3)

Pay

Salary range: $213,000—$263,000 USD