Software Engineer, Waymo
Applied Machine Learning
$158-200k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Open for applications
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$158-200k
+ Discretionary annual bonus program + Equity incentive plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience solving problems using Machine Learning with Tensorflow or equivalent tools and integrating ML in a production system
- Experience evaluating ML-based systems
Desirable
- Experience applying machine learning to solve motion planning or related robotics problems
- PhD in Computer Science, ML, Robotics
- Experience with Deep Neural Networks or Regression Models
What the job involves
- 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 ML problems; apply deep learning, reinforcement learning, imitation learning to these problems; scale them to Google-sized data pipelines; and refine them to run in real-time on the cars
- Report into a Staff Engineering Manager within Behavior
Our take
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.
With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$2.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2020
$750m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $5.5bn
Company values
- Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
- Safety is our foundation
- We pioneer
- Act with thoughtful urgency
- Respect each other
- Be responsible owners
- We’re stronger together
- Optionality creates opportunities
- Always be learning
- Celebrate progress
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Dmitri Dolgov
(Co-CEO, not founder)Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.
Tekedra N. Mawakana
(Co-CEO, not founder)Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.
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