Waymo is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Systems Engineering team, focusing on Perception Verification. You will develop measurement approaches, validate analysis methodologies, integrate metrics, accelerate verification processes, and build data pipelines to characterize the performance and safety of the perception system.
What You'll Do
- Develop measurement approaches and metrics to characterize performance and safety of our perception system against a diverse set of requirements.
- Validate perception system analysis methodologies to assess their applicability to the requirements, and communicate benefits and limitations to partner teams.
- Integrate and deploy metrics and broader system characterization reports on fleet-wide data.
- Accelerate verification processes by automating highly nuanced system characterization procedures.
- Stand up durable data analysis and data mining pipelines to discover new faults and rare events.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering for robotics, autonomous vehicles, computer vision, or other complex hardware/software systems.
- Experience testing such systems at all levels from unit tests to comprehensive end-to-end test campaigns.
- Solid understanding of physics, geometry, bayesian statistics, and machine learning.
- Proficiency in Python and C++.
- Ability to learn and utilize new frameworks quickly, employing AI tools or otherwise.
- Ability to write clean, readable, and well-tested code, setting a strong example for code hygiene and maintainability.
Nice to Have
- 8+ years industry experience.
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Experience building numerical algorithms or scientific software.
- Experience building or evaluating machine learning models in production.
- Experience building and testing autonomous systems.
- Experience using LLMs and VLMs in production environments.
Technical Stack
- Python
- C++
- SQL
Team & Environment
You will be joining the Systems Engineering team, reporting to the Technical Lead Manager for Perception Verification.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $213,000—$270,000 USD + equity incentive plan.
- Discretionary annual bonus program.
- Equity incentive plan.
- Generous Company benefits program.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role based in the US.
Waymo maintains strong teamwork and is passionate about driving results.
