Waymo

Software Engineer, Backend

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9 months ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate high-performance, low-latency data pipelines for large-scale simulation and real-world monitoring.
  • Improve simulation signal quality and ensure simulation results predict real-world behavior.
  • Implement metrics to measure simulation accuracy.
  • Deploy and potentially contribute to ML models that identify interesting driving scenarios and improve testing efficiency.
  • Maintain code health and developer experience across simulation and monitoring ecosystems.
  • Collaborate with Data Scientists and Systems Engineers to translate vehicle telemetry into actionable insights about the Waymo Driver’s internal logic.
  • Work cross-functionally with mobile app, cloud backend, Waymo Driver, operations, product, legal, partnerships, policy, and privacy teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency in C++ or another object-oriented programming language.
  • Familiarity with Python and SQL.
  • Interest in autonomous driving, simulation, and evaluation.
  • Preferred: 7+ years of industry experience or 3+ years of postdoctoral experience in a quantitative- or quality-focused engineering role.
  • Preferred: experience serving as a technical lead while developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, processing experimental data, synthesizing conclusions, and maintaining production-system stability.
  • Preferred: B.Sc., M.Sc., or PhD in Computer Science.
  • Preferred: experience with large-scale distributed systems at FAANG scale.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Waymo

1,001-5,000 employees

Waymo develops the Waymo Driver, a full-stack autonomous driving system, and operates the Waymo One robotaxi service that offers paid, driverless rides in select U.S. cities. The company monetizes through ride-hailing fares and partnerships integrating its technology on multiple vehicle platforms. Founded in 2009 as Google’s self-driving project, Waymo is headquartered in Mountain View and is an Alphabet subsidiary, with over 10 million rider-only trips and 100+ million autonomous miles on public roads.

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