Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Driving Systems

Pittsburgh Robotics Network; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 251,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentive plan

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a software engineer to contribute to the Waymo Driver’s perception, planning and control systems in a hybrid role reporting to the Technical Lead Manager.

You will collaborate with a team of specialists to tackle real-world autonomous driving challenges, leveraging C++ expertise and cross-team communication. The role demands 5+ years of software engineering experience in robotics or related fields. This position offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years general software engineering experience programming in C++.
• Experience collaborating with different teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with a creative team of people who ensure that the behavior of our cars is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users.
• Frame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined engineering problems; develop tools, algorithms and evaluation mechanisms; scale them to Google-sized data pipelines; and refine them to run in real-time on the cars.

Skills

C++ software engineering

Team collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Waymo is seeking a software engineer to contribute to the Waymo Driver’s perception, planning and control systems in a hybrid role reporting to the Technical Lead Manager.

You will collaborate with a team of specialists to tackle real-world autonomous driving challenges, leveraging C++ expertise and cross-team communication. The role demands 5+ years of software engineering experience in robotics or related fields. This position offers competitive compensation and benefits.