Senior Software Engineer, Perception Verification
$213k/y-$270k/y
Waymo2 days ago
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HybridFull-timeSenior
Summary
Waymo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Perception Verification to join their team in Mountain View, CA. The role involves developing measurement approaches and metrics to characterize the performance and safety of the perception system for autonomous vehicles.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, Perception Verification, you will be responsible for validating perception system analysis methodologies, integrating metrics on fleet-wide data, and automating system characterization procedures. You will also develop data analysis pipelines to discover new faults and rare events, ensuring the safety and performance of the Waymo Driver.
About You
Required:
- 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering for robotics, autonomous vehicles, computer vision, or other complex hardware/software systems.
- Experience testing systems at all levels from unit tests to comprehensive end-to-end test campaigns.
- Solid understanding of physics, geometry, bayesian statistics, and machine learning.
- Proficiency in Python and C++.
- Ability to write clean, readable, and well-tested code.
Preferred:
- 8+ years industry experience.
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Experience building numerical algorithms or scientific software.
- Experience building or evaluating machine learning models in production.
- Experience building and testing autonomous systems.
- Experience using LLMs and VLMs in production environments.
Benefits
- Participation in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program.
- Equity incentive plan.
- Generous Company benefits program.
Waymo
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Mountain View, CA