Software Engineer (Planner Reasoning)

• The Planner Reasoning Team builds technology that has an extremely broad impact across the Waymo organization and is the team most directly responsible for the Waymo Driver’s behavior
• We have wide reaching impact into both onboard and off-board system architecture, paving the way for future-looking deep-learning-based explorations
• In this team, you’ll have an impact on scaling our Waymo Driver’s performance and maintaining and improving our excellent safety record as Waymo expands to more cities
• Develop business logic software to evolve driving performance of the Waymo Driver
• Work cross-functionally on safety, road rules compliance, and ride quality
• Develop and implement methods to evaluate and improve Waymo driving behaviors
• Evaluate new proposed changes utilizing a range of data-driven methods
• Analyze large amounts of data of real world and simulated driving, understanding, characterizing and clustering the performance of the Waymo Driver
• Interact with ML models to maximize their impact towards solving driving problems
• In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Employee assistance programs focused on mental health
• Personalized workplace adjustments for diverse needs and abilities, including physical, mental, and neurodivergent considerations
• Access to mental health apps
• Onsite wellness centers
• Medical advocacy program for transgender employees
• Support programs including menopause benefit
• Second medical opinion for you and your loved ones
• Counseling services
• Competitive compensation
• Regular bonus and equity performance grant opportunities
• Generous 401(k) and regional retirement plans
• 1-on-1 financial coaching
• Annual cross-company compensation review and pay equity analysis
• Fertility and growing family assistance
• Parental leave and baby bonding leave
• Backup childcare
• Survivor income benefit
• Elder care and support
• Caregiver leave
• Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays
• Jury duty leave
• Military leave
• Hybrid work model with remote work opportunities also available
• Educational reimbursement
• Peer learning and coaching platform
• Donation matching programs
• Employee resource groups
• Volunteer hours
• Internal community groups and local culture clubs
• Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Waymonauts
• On-site meals and snacks
• Fitness centers, massage programs, and ergonomic support
• On-demand fitness, wellbeing, and cooking classes
• Commuter benefits- Experience debugging and improving live, production systems
• Experience with designing scalable software architectures for complex systems
• Bachelors in Computer Science, Robotics, Math, Physics, Statistics (or similar technical field of study) or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated alignment with Waymo’s Values and Behaviors
• 3+ years of Software Engineering experience in Python or C++
• Proficiency in C++
• Experience with large-scale data/ML applications
• Evaluation experience, contributing to scalable evaluation workflows
• Experience with autonomous systems