Senior LiDAR Performance Validation Engineer (Hybrid)

Waymo LLC; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Generous Company benefits

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a skilled Hardware Engineer to advance LiDAR systems, working with electrical, mechanical, and software teams to ensure high-performance optical sensing. The role involves physics-based modeling, prototyping, and data analysis to meet safety and performance goals.

You will contribute to bench testing, field measurements, and scalable testing procedures while collaborating with perception and systems engineers to triage field issues and derive requirements.

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics or equivalent.
• Strong data analysis and communication skills.
• Experience with depth sensing technologies and prototyping.
• Track record of solving challenging technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to develop LiDAR systems and subsystems.
• Develop bench characterization methods and physics-based software models.
• Define test and calibration procedures to ensure data quality at scale.
• Design field measurements and tests, assess environmental impacts on LiDAR performance.

Skills

Data analysis

Technical communication

Problem solving

Physics modeling

Education

Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics

Tools

Python

C++

Job description

Waymo is seeking a skilled Hardware Engineer to advance LiDAR systems, working with electrical, mechanical, and software teams to ensure high-performance optical sensing. The role involves physics-based modeling, prototyping, and data analysis to meet safety and performance goals.

You will contribute to bench testing, field measurements, and scalable testing procedures while collaborating with perception and systems engineers to triage field issues and derive requirements.