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
Lead and manage a team of software engineers in charge of developing driving: quality metrics, measuring the robustness of the Waymo Driver to its input (e.g. sensors data, maps), using a range of techniques including ML, statistics, and algorithms
Define a long-term strategy, develop roadmaps, and guide the team to execute: projects from ambiguous requirements to high-impact deliverables
Use simulation creatively and mine real world driving logs to measure driving performance
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
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area
What they're looking for
- + years of experience in the field of software engineering
- Solid technical leadership in defining vision, strategy and priorities
- Proficiency in C++ or Python in a production environment
- Strong technical communication and collaboration skills
