Software Engineer, Quantitative Evaluations
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Planner Evaluation team to develop signals for measuring the performance of the Waymo driver and improve the software that drives the car using data analysis and collaboration with other teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop signals to measure the performance and driving qualities of the Waymo driver, using a range of techniques including statistics, math, physics, algorithms and machine learning
- Use simulation creatively and mine real world driving logs to measure driving performance
- Design and implement methods to make a stronger connection between onboard software changes and simulated outcomes
- Champion code health and best practices in a large and complex code base
- Analyze data and make recommendations on how to improve metric quality and interpretability
- Collaborate with other engineers, data scientists, statisticians and the leadership team to deliver evaluation products and help make data driven decisions
Skills
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area
- Strong self-motivation to navigate complex systems and pursue open-ended problems to completion
- 1+ years of industry experience with navigating and modifying a large code base containing a variety of languages, such as C++, Python and SQL
- 1+ years of industry experience with performing statistical analyses
- 1+ years of industry experience with building data processing pipelines
- 1+ years of industry experience with writing, reviewing, and merging code following industry standards for code health and maintainability
- Quant/data fluency is a top requirement
- Experience coding in C++
- Experience with ML
- Experience with A/B experiment infrastructure
- Experience building and validating metrics to measure quality in complex systems
- Exposure to ad-hoc data analysis tools for rapid modeling and prototyping
- Experience working in the AV industry
Benefits
- Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
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