Staff Software Engineer, Planner

Dormont Manufacturing Co; United States; On-site; USD 251,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Generous company benefits

Job summary

Dormont Manufacturing Co is seeking a talented Software Engineer in a hybrid role to ensure the safe and predictable behavior of cars. You will collaborate with a creative team to define engineering problems and develop real-time algorithms.

The ideal candidate will have a BS in Computer Science or similar field and over 5 years of software engineering experience, particularly in C++. The role offers a salary range of $251,000—$310,000 USD and includes participation in a bonus program and equity incentive plan.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of general software engineering experience.
• Experience in collaborating with different teams.
• Experience solving or evaluating ML-based systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the behavior of cars is safe, smooth, and predictable.
• Develop tools and algorithms to handle real-world engineering problems.

Skills

C++ programming

Software engineering

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

MS in Computer Science or related field

Job description

In this hybrid role, you will report to Technical Lead Manager

You will

• Work with a creative team of people who ensure that the behavior of our cars is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users, which includes gracefully handling many complex situations involving social aspects (merging, negotiating narrow roads), while dealing with noisy, uncertain, and incomplete information.
• 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.

You have

• BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years general software engineering experience programming in C++ with efficient code
• Experience collaborating with different teams

We prefer

• MS in Computer Science, ML Robotics, similar technical field of study
• General software engineering experience solving motion planning or related robotics problems
• Experience solving or evaluating ML‑based systems

Salary Range

$251,000—$310,000 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.