Senior Inertial Navigation Software Engineer (C++)

Waymo LLC; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentives

Generous benefits package

Job summary

Waymo LLC in the United States is seeking a talented engineer to advance its state estimation stack for autonomous driving. You will develop algorithms and deploy production-level C++ software that fuses inertial, GNSS, and other sensors into a robust positioning system across vehicle platforms.

You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, optimize performance on massive real-world datasets, and contribute to scalable evaluation pipelines and tools for reliability and safety guarantees.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of state estimation theory and practice.
• Experience with multi-sensor fusion and calibration.
• Production-grade C++ software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop algorithms to improve core state estimation accuracy and robustness.
• Engineer and deploy C++ software to fuse sensor data for vehicle platforms.
• Build pipelines to evaluate positioning performance across real-world data.
• Analyze large datasets to optimize sensor models and performance.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to solve complex challenges.

Skills

State estimation

C++ production code

Inertial navigation

Sensor fusion

Education

MS or PhD or equivalent experience

Tools

C++

SQL

Python

NumPy

Job description

Waymo LLC in the United States is seeking a talented engineer to advance its state estimation stack for autonomous driving. You will develop algorithms and deploy production-level C++ software that fuses inertial, GNSS, and other sensors into a robust positioning system across vehicle platforms.

You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, optimize performance on massive real-world datasets, and contribute to scalable evaluation pipelines and tools for reliability and safety guarantees.