Waymo

Software Engineer, Statistical Evaluation and Sampling

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1 day ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$170k - $216k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop importance-sampling techniques for efficient autonomous-driving evaluation pipelines.
  • Analyze logs and simulations to identify signals for discovering rare and important events.
  • Build systems that optimize multiple objectives under resource constraints.
  • Build data-processing pipelines and perform statistical analyses.
  • Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, statisticians, and leadership to deliver evaluation products and support data-driven decisions.
  • Write, review, and merge maintainable code while championing code health and engineering best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, or another quantitative field.
  • 2–3 years of experience navigating and modifying large codebases containing languages such as C++, Python, and SQL.
  • 2–3 years of experience performing statistical analyses and building data-processing pipelines.
  • 2–3 years of experience writing, reviewing, and merging code according to industry standards for code health and maintainability.
  • Fluency with probability and statistics and the ability to pursue complex, open-ended problems to completion.
  • Preferred: experience programming in C++, developing and evaluating sampling methods, designing/training/evaluating/applying machine-learning models, or working in the autonomous-vehicle industry.
  • Preferred: PhD in a quantitative field.

Benefits

  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Equity incentive plan, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Full-time position across U.S. locations; the recruiter can provide location-specific salary details, including for eligible remote arrangements.

Tech Stack

Categories

Data Science
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About Waymo

1,001-5,000 employees

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