Software Engineer, Driving Behaviors

Waymo's Systems Engineering team works together to blend software and hardware systems in groundbreaking new ways. We set the high performance standards that ensure our vehicles run smoothly and keep passengers safe, then design and perform the tests that validate that performance. We're looking for talented teammates who’ll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results.

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Staff Test Engineer, Driving Behaviors.

You will:

• Develop metrics and models to evaluate and enhance the performance, safety and scalability of our self driving system
• Evaluate new models or methods to assess their performance and applicability to problems
• Find new ways to gather the required data needed to improve our metrics and models
• Communicate benefits and limitations of new models and metrics to partner teams
• Integrate and deploy metrics and models on fleet-wide data

You have:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other complex hardware/software systems
• Experience testing such systems at all levels from unit tests to comprehensive end-to-end test campaigns.
• Solid understanding of physics, geometry, and dynamics
• Proficiency in C++ and Python
• Ability to learn and utilize new frameworks quickly, employing AI tools or otherwise
• Experience training new applications on existing ML architectures and improving existing applications

We prefer:

• 8+ years industry experience
• Proficiency in SQL
• Experience building and testing autonomous systems
• Experience using LLMs and VLMs in production environments