Senior Software Engineer, Multiverse
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. Since our start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to improve everyone's access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. Our Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, as well as Waymo Via, our trucking and local delivery service. To date, Waymo has driven over 20 million miles autonomously on public roads across 25 U.S. cities and conducted over 20 billion miles of simulation testing.
At Waymo, we are mission-driven and believe deeply in the opportunity of autonomous driving technology to improve mobility and make people's lives better. We are united by purpose and responsibility (for our employees and riders alike). We are looking for kind, committed, employees who have integrity, dream big, work together as one team and create a sense of belonging for one another that is the foundation of our culture. We want each team member to feel welcomed and included in every step of our exciting journey.
The Multiverse team is responsible for evaluating the safety of new releases before putting new version on the road, especially the one without a safety driver. This is a very complex process running at an enormous scale with unique challenges (we can't just run A/B experiments) that has been built from years of experience. We are in the process of scaling this process to be able to tackle multiple cities and platforms at once.
We run some of the largest jobs across Alphabet, distributed across 100+ datacenters, need to handle CPU/TPU interfaces without dropping one of the critical rare events. We're at the point where we need to rebuild significant part of the system while in-flight. This would be a great fit from someone with experience in search/ads backend for example.
Some of the projects the team is tackling include:
Extracting fast, leading indicators both for use in direct optimization and evaluation of our vehicle's behaviors
Leveraging millions of miles of driving logs, balancing deep and broad evaluation strategies and signals for assessment
Improving the efficiency of the system to make it more cost effective for Waymo to scale
We are looking for senior quality-minded engineers to work with a senior team. The following types of experience are relevant to roles on this team:
Primary Qualifications (at least one of)
Experience in the area of quality, experimentation, evaluation, statistical gotchas, machine learning, etc.
Passionate about eval work: building internal tools, scalable systems, and data processing pipelines. Making our system better through data: "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it!"
Experience with large scale system design, e.g. integration of ML research in production systems
Preferred qualifications
Experience building tools and pipelines for collecting, storing and processing large amounts of data
Experience with designing production grade highly reliable and scalable systems
SQL/C++/Python
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
While at Waymo, you will enjoy benefits that cover…
Health and wellness: Our people are at the heart of everything we do. At Waymo, you can enjoy top-notch medical, dental and vision insurance, mental wellness support, a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), a Health Saving Account (HSA), on-site physicians and/or nurses in some locations, and special wellness programs.
Financial wellness: Your financial peace of mind is important to us. At Waymo, we offer competitive compensation, bonus opportunities, equity, a generous 401(k) plan or regional retirement plans, 1-on-1 financial coaching, a 529 College Savings Plan and lots of other perks and employee discounts.
Flexibility and time off: Take the time you need to relax and recharge. Enjoy the flexibility to work from another location for four weeks per year. We support an on-site, hybrid work model and offer remote working opportunities, paid time off, Waymo recharge days, bereavement, sick, and parental leave.
Supporting families: When it comes to growing your family or caring for your loved ones, you have our full support. Enhanced leave options include paid parental leave (birthing parent gets 24 weeks of paid leave, and non-birthing parent gets 18 weeks of paid leave), and 20 subsidized days of backup childcare or adult/elder care. Access to fertility care or adoption support as you grow your family.
Community and personal development: At Waymo, you’ll find a range of opportunities to grow, connect, and give back. We offer education tuition reimbursement, personal and professional development, mentorship, and other ways to connect through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), other internal groups, and even time off to volunteer.
Cool perks: Access to Google offices, cafes, wellness centers, personal training sessions, massages, haircuts, bike repairs, office transportation, commuter benefits and so much more. To support your wellbeing at home, you can enjoy at-home fitness and cooking classes, and more.
* Please note that while our benefits philosophy is the same in every place Waymonauts work, benefits may vary by office/country and are subject to eligibility requirements.