Software Engineer, Planner

Job Summary

Waymo is seeking a Software Engineer to join our team. Reporting to a Technical Lead Manager, you will work with a creative team to ensure the behavior of our cars is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users. This involves handling complex situations involving social aspects and dealing with noisy, uncertain, and incomplete information.

Responsibilities

• Frame open-ended real-world problems into well-defined engineering problems
• Develop tools, algorithms, and evaluation mechanisms
• Scale solutions to Google-sized data pipelines
• Refined solutions to run in real-time on the cars

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years general software engineering experience programming in C++ with efficient code
• Experience collaborating with different teams

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, or similar technical field of study
• Experience solving or evaluating ML-based systems
• Experience solving motion planning or related robotics problems