Senior Software Engineer - Multiverse

Waymo; New York (NY); On-site; USD 213,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity incentives

Company benefits

Job summary

Waymo is hiring for a RO Performance role focused on the world’s most trusted driver. You will help scale metrics systems for Waymo Driver deployments in simulation and on real roads, building scalable pipelines for event insights and performance tracking.

The role emphasizes low-latency data processing, engineering leadership, and collaboration with data scientists, SREs, and product teams to improve detection, insights, and driver outcomes across markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• C++ proficiency and Python familiarity.
• SQL familiarity and interest in autonomous driving.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the Event Insights sub-team and drive event lifecycle from logs to refined outputs.
• Develop dynamic event clustering products to produce low-latency event clusters during deployments.
• Design and implement storage & APIs for events with pull/push consumption models.
• Orchestrate low-latency interactions with human triage or large VLM inference, ensuring reliability.
• Collaborate with UI teams to deliver insightful visualizations of Waymo Driver performance.

Skills

C++

Python

SQL

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Job description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

The RO Performance Team is accountable for the largest metrics system deployment in the AV industry. The team manages data pipelines that monitor Waymo's AV fleet in the real world at various latencies: from minutes to hours; supporting critical business decisions for deployments in new markets and identifying emergent business critical challenges. In addition, the same pipeline technologies are deployed for the virtual world to measure key outcomes from Waymo's massive scale simulations, generating insights to support new Driver releases. Important objectives for the next couple of years include:

• Reliably scaling as the business scales, Waymo is in its fast expansion phase and systems have to be built to support 100x growth.
• Timeliness: As Waymo's deployments accelerate across the globe, time to first detection needs to consistently improve.
• Comprehensive coverage: Expanding into new weather conditions and new markets brings new challenges. Increasing the metric and detection offerings to meet these challenges is key to achieving our business goals.

The team works closely with many other teams such as: metrics development teams including large AI deployments, System engineers and Data scientists that produce definitions and quality controls, infrastructure and UI teams that support underlying capabilities, product teams to stay sensitive to changing business needs, and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams to maintain high system uptime.

You Will

• Be a part of the Event Insights sub-team, Once metric events, e.g., a hard brake occurred, are minted from heavy logs processing pipelines, an event lifecycle emerges where such events may get sent to other systems for further refinement, including but not limited to: human triage, VLM inference, clustering. Key workstreams that the TLM will be accountable for include:
• Clustering: Work on creation of a dynamic event clustering product to produce event clusters at low latency for rapid understanding of emerging issues during new deployments of the Waymo Driver in simulation or in the real world.
• Storage & APIs: Events need to be stored and queried by different downstream systems. Consumption APIs include pull or push based paradigms. Labels received from human triage or VLMs update existing events.
• Low Latency Orchestration: Gathering further event insights requires interaction with other systems at Waymo such as for human triage or large VLM inference. Orchestrating these interactions reliably and at low latency is key for meeting Waymo's challenges.
• Visualization: Work closely with partner UI teams to ensure that event insights can be delivered to end consumers and provide value for understanding the Waymo Driver's performance.

You Have

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• C++ proficiency
• Python familiarity
• SQL familiarity
• Excited about autonomous driving, Simulation + Eval

We Prefer

• 7+ years of industry experience or 3+ years post-doc experience in a quantitative- or quality- focused engineering role in which you had experience as a technical lead for a team in which you were performing tasks like developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, processing data from experiments, synthesizing conclusions, and ensuring the long term stability and health of the production system.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science
• Experience working with large FAANG scale distributed systems.

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. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range

$213,000—$263,000 USD