Software Engineer, Planner

Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo’s fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you’re a software engineer or researcher who’s curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we’d like to meet you. 

In this hybrid role, you will report to Technical Lead Manager

You will:

• Work with a creative team of people who ensure that the behavior of our cars is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users, which includes gracefully handling many complex situations involving social aspects (merging, negotiating narrow roads), while dealing with noisy, uncertain, and incomplete information.
• Frame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined engineering problems; develop tools, algorithms and evaluation mechanisms; scale them to Google-sized data pipelines; and refine them to run in real-time on the cars.

You have:

• BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years general software engineering experience programming in C++ with efficient code
• Experience collaborating with different teams

We prefer:

• MS in Computer Science, ML Robotics, similar technical field of study
• General software engineering experience solving motion planning or related robotics problems
• Experience solving or evaluating ML-based systems