Senior Software Engineer (Quantitative Evaluations)

Join Waymo, a leader in autonomous driving technology. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Planner Evaluation team, you will play a crucial role in measuring and improving the quality of the software that drives the car. You will develop signals to measure performance and driving qualities, use simulation creatively, and design methods to connect software changes with simulated outcomes. You will also analyze data, make recommendations for improvement, and collaborate with other engineers, data scientists, and the leadership team. This position offers a hybrid work schedule and a comprehensive benefits package.

• 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.
• Design and implement methods to make a stronger connection between onboard software changes and simulated outcomes, and champion code health and best practices in a large and complex code base.
• Collaborate with other engineers, data scientists, statisticians and the leadership team to deliver evaluation products and help make data driven decisions.
• Writing, reviewing, and merging code following industry standards for code health and maintainability
• Performing statistical analyses
• Building data processing pipelines
• Quant/data fluency is a top requirement
• 2-3 years of industry experience with
• Navigating and modifying a large code base containing a variety of languages, such as C++, Python and SQL
• Strong self-motivation to navigate complex systems and pursue open-ended problems to completion
• BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area
• Experience coding in C++
• Experience with ML
• Experience building and validating metrics to measure quality in complex systems
• Experience with A/B experiment infrastructure
• Exposure to ad-hoc data analysis tools for rapid modeling and prototyping
• Experience working in the AV industry
• We are looking for experienced data-minded software engineers and data scientists to help us improve how we characterize and evaluate changes to the Onboard software stack (Planner, Perception, etc)
• If you are passionate about autonomous vehicles and how to use rich, complex data to drive decision making, this is the role for you!