Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Planner Selection
Waymo · Mountain View, CA · Planner (7LU)
About this role
Waymo is hiring a staff-level Machine Learning Engineer based in Mountain View, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Machine Learning. Compensation is listed at $238,000–$302,000 per year.
- Role
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Function
- machine learning
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
- Department
- Planner (7LU)
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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.
The Waymo Strategic Selection team is responsible for the critical, real-time decision-making systems that guide the Waymo Driver through complex urban environments. Operating on a horizon of approximately 60 seconds into the future, this team bridges the gap between high-level routing and immediate tactical maneuvers, ensuring safe, comfortable, and efficient trajectories. In this role, you will focus on developing generalized ML models capable of handling a wider range of complex driving situations.
In this role, you will report into a TLM of Planner Technology.
You will:
- Investigate driving behavior issues from logs and understand the root cause