Senior Software Engineer, Planner Reasoning

Job Summary

The Planner Reasoning Team at Waymo is seeking a skilled software engineer to develop and improve the Waymo Driver's performance. This role involves working cross-functionally on safety, road rules compliance, and ride quality, and evaluating new proposed changes using data-driven methods.

Responsibilities

• Develop business logic software to evolve driving performance of the Waymo Driver
• Work cross-functionally on safety, road rules compliance, and ride quality
• Develop and implement methods to evaluate and improve Waymo driving behaviors
• Evaluate new proposed changes utilizing a range of data-driven methods
• Analyze large amounts of data of real world and simulated driving, understanding, characterizing and clustering the performance of the Waymo Driver
• Interact with ML models to maximize their impact towards solving driving problems

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Math, Physics, Statistics (or similar technical field of study) or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of Software Engineering experience in Python or C++
• Experience debugging and improving live, production systems
• Experience with designing scalable software architectures for complex systems

Qualifications

• Demonstrated alignment with Waymo’s Values and Behaviors
• Preferred: Proficiency in C++, Experience with large-scale data/ML applications, Evaluation experience, contributing to scalable evaluation workflows, Experience with autonomous systems

Benefits

Waymo offers a comprehensive benefits package including a discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Pay

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level.

$213,000—$263,000 USD