The opportunity
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to…
What you'll do
Develop tools for easy mining of novel situations that might impact safety: from our driving logs for use in evaluation and ML datasets, using a mixture of ML and structured data
Advanced sampling techniques and tuning of simulations to get strong signal: for metrics and models from our datasets
Build automation for our mining and sampling ecosystem so Waymo can rapidly scale to new cities
Make hands-on technical contributions to both engineering and data science-oriented projects
Provide strong management and technical leadership for a small team of data science-friendly engineers
Partner with leads and teams across Waymo to determine and execute on: strategy, including product, engineering, data science, frontend, and backend
What they're looking for
- Strong engineering design and programming skills
- Strong data fluency and analysis skills
- Familiarity with statistical methods including hypothesis testing, experiment design, and sampling
- Familiarity with foundational and contemporary ML concepts and practices