Mountain View, California Hybrid Employment

Waymo is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Perception

About the Role

The role involves designing, building, and optimizing software that processes sensor inputs to detect and understand objects in real time. Engineers will collaborate across teams to enhance the accuracy and reliability of perception models in diverse conditions.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement algorithms for object detection and tracking
  • Develop software to process data from cameras, lidar, and radar sensors
  • Improve real-time performance of perception systems
  • Collaborate with research teams to integrate new models
  • Optimize code for efficiency and scalability
  • Work on labeling and ground truth pipelines
  • Contribute to testing and validation frameworks
  • Diagnose and resolve issues in production environments
  • Support simulation and data replay tools
  • Ensure robustness in diverse weather and lighting conditions
  • Participate in code reviews and system design discussions
  • Help maintain system documentation
  • Work closely with hardware teams to understand sensor characteristics
  • Contribute to safety-critical software development practices
  • Enhance model interpretability and debugging tools
  • Support deployment of updates to vehicle fleets
  • Analyze field data to identify edge cases
  • Improve data processing pipelines for training sets
  • Collaborate on versioning and deployment of machine learning models
  • Ensure compliance with software quality standards

Nice to Have

  • Advanced degree in a relevant field
  • Experience with lidar or radar data processing
  • Background in autonomous vehicle perception
  • Knowledge of neural network optimization
  • Experience with simulation environments
  • Familiarity with safety standards in automotive systems
  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Understanding of regulatory frameworks for autonomous systems
  • Published work in computer vision or robotics

Compensation

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model available

Team

Part of the core engineering team focused on autonomous systems

About the Team

The team develops core technologies that allow vehicles to understand their surroundings. Work spans from low-level sensor processing to high-level scene interpretation.

Impact

Engineers directly influence the safety and capabilities of self-driving systems through scalable and reliable software solutions.

Available for qualified candidates

About company
Waymo
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that builds the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility and save lives. The Waymo Driver powers fully autonomous ride-hail services and can be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases.
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Posted 2 days ago