Waymo

Software Engineer, Quantitative Evaluations

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8 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$170k - $216k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop methodologies and metrics for measuring simulation realism across agent behavior, sensor rendering, environmental effects, and other simulator technologies.
  • Design scalable and efficient platforms and pipelines for measuring realism across massive datasets.
  • Research and implement systems that guide simulator development priorities.
  • Identify system performance or realism gaps and develop data-driven approaches to investigate them.
  • Collaborate with engineering and research teams developing and using large-scale machine learning models to improve simulator fidelity.
  • Contribute to a high-fidelity simulator used for safety validation and Waymo Driver performance evaluation.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least two years of industry software development experience.
  • Proficiency in Python or C++, including relevant data-handling and computation libraries such as NumPy or Pandas.
  • Experience with SQL for data querying and analysis.
  • Knowledge of software design principles, coding best practices, testing methodologies, and version control software.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and interpreting quantitative analyses or metrics using concepts such as distributions and confidence intervals.
  • Demonstrated ability to turn quantitative findings into productionized metrics, automated evaluation tools, or validation-system improvements.
  • Experience building software pipelines for data processing, system evaluation, or metric computation in large-scale systems.
  • Preferred: expertise in quantitative evaluation methodologies and scalable data-processing or evaluation infrastructure.
  • Preferred: experience defining technical strategy and roadmaps in complex technical and product environments.
  • Preferred: experience with simulation systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicles.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Full-time position.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and company benefits program.

Tech Stack

C++NumPyPandasPythonSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Waymo

1,001-5,000 employees

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