Senior Software Engineer - Multiverse

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

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a Software Engineer to help build infrastructure for a virtual driver’s test and to design, implement, and operate scalable simulation data pipelines that evaluate the Waymo Driver’s driving capability.

In this hybrid role reporting to a Software Engineering Manager, you will apply ML models to improve tests and contribute to production-quality systems, blending research with practical deployment to advance autonomous mobility.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Build the infrastructure to administer a "virtual driver’s test" for the Waymo Driver. Design, implement, and operate scalable simulation data pipelines to evaluate the driving capability of the Waymo Driver.
• Improve the signal quality provided by the "virtual driver’s test". Enhance the quality of individual simulations and the overarching simulation workflows to determine if the test results predict the Waymo Driver’s real-world driving behavior.
• Apply ML models from partner teams, and optionally contribute to them yourself, to improve the efficiency of our "virtual driver’s test": simulate the most interesting situations and report the most interesting simulation results.

Skills

C++

Python

SQL

Autonomous driving

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Job description

About the Company

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 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.

Team Mission

Our mission within the Driver Understanding and Evaluation (DUE) team at Waymo is to develop rich metrics for understanding the behavior of the Waymo Driver in the real world.

Role Overview

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Software Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

• Build the infrastructure to administer a "virtual driver’s test" for the Waymo Driver. Design, implement, and operate scalable simulation data pipelines to evaluate the driving capability of the Waymo Driver.
• Improve the signal quality provided by the "virtual driver’s test". Enhance the quality of individual simulations and the overarching simulation workflows to determine if the test results predict the Waymo Driver’s real‑world driving behavior.
• Apply ML models from partner teams, and optionally contribute to them yourself, to improve the efficiency of our "virtual driver’s test": simulate the most interesting situations and report the most interesting simulation results.

Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 performing tasks such as 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.

Compensation

The expected base salary range for this full‑time position across U.S. locations is $213,000 – $263,000 USD.

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.