Senior Software Engineer - Multiverse

Our mission within the Driver Understanding and Evaluation (DUE) team at Waymo is to develop rich metrics for understanding the behavior of the Waymo Driver in the real world.

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Software Engineering Manager.

You will:

• Build the infrastructure to administer a "virtual driver's test" for the Waymo Driver. Design, implement, and operate scalable simulation data pipelines to evaluate the driving capability of the Waymo Driver.
• Improve the signal quality provided by the "virtual driver's test". Improve the quality of individual simulations and that of the overarching simulation workflows. Try to answer whether the results of the "virtual driver's test" are predictive of the Waymo Driver's real-world driving behavior.
• Apply ML models from partner teams, and optionally contribute to them yourself, to improve the efficiency of our "virtual driver's test": simulate the most interesting situations and report the most interesting simulation results.

You have:

• 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• C++ proficiency
• Python familiarity
• SQL familiarity

• Excited about autonomous driving, Simulation + Eval

We prefer:

• 7+ years of industry experience or 3+ years post-doc experience in a quantitative- or quality- focused engineering role in which you had experience as a technical lead for a team in which you were performing tasks like developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, processing data from experiments, synthesizing conclusions, and ensuring the long term stability and health of the production system.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science
• Experience working with large FAANG scale distributed systems.