Senior Software Engineer, Simulator Evaluation
Waymo · Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA · Simulation (7XW)
About this role
Waymo is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with Python, SQL, pandas, NumPy and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $204,000–$259,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Department
- Simulation (7XW)
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Job description
from Waymo careersWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
Waymo’s simulator is one of the most complex virtual environments ever built. It blends deterministic logic, physical dynamics, and state-of-the-art Generative AI to create a training ground for the Waymo Driver. The Simulator Evaluation team faces the ultimate data challenge: How do you mathematically prove that a virtual world is "real"?
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build the metrics and systems that grade this hybrid environment. You will work at the intersection of software engineering and AI, ensuring that our simulated worlds—whether driven by explicit rules or foundation models—provide a trustworthy representation of reality.