Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems & AI Metrics

Waymo; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo is hiring for a software engineering role within its Systems Engineering team in the US. You will help develop metrics and models to evaluate the performance, safety, and scalability of the Waymo Driver and integrate them across the fleet.

The role requires strong C++ and Python skills, plus experience testing complex hardware/software systems and applying ML techniques. Location may vary across US locations, with competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering for robotics or autonomous systems.
• Experience testing such systems at all levels from unit tests to comprehensive end-to-end test campaigns.
• Solid understanding of physics, geometry, and dynamics.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Ability to learn and utilize new frameworks quickly, employing AI tools or otherwise.

Responsibilities

• Develop metrics and models to evaluate and enhance the performance, safety and scalability of our self driving system
• Evaluate new models or methods to assess their performance and applicability to problems
• Find new ways to gather the required data needed to improve our metrics and models
• Communicate benefits and limitations of new models and metrics to partner teams
• Integrate and deploy metrics and models on fleet-wide data

Skills

C++

Python

SQL

Robotics

Unit testing

AI frameworks

Tools

LLMs

VLMs

Job description

Waymo is hiring for a software engineering role within its Systems Engineering team in the US. You will help develop metrics and models to evaluate the performance, safety, and scalability of the Waymo Driver and integrate them across the fleet.

The role requires strong C++ and Python skills, plus experience testing complex hardware/software systems and applying ML techniques. Location may vary across US locations, with competitive compensation and benefits.