Waymo
Senior Software Engineer, Quantitative Evaluations
$204K–$259K
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Dec 18, 2025
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 2-3 years of industry experience.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math, or another quantitative area.
About the job
Develop quantitative methods and evaluation metrics to measure and improve autonomous-driving software performance using simulation and real-world driving data.
What you'll do
- Develop performance signals and analyze simulation and driving-log data to evaluate driving quality.
- Build methods linking onboard software changes to simulated outcomes, and improve metric quality and interpretability.
- Collaborate across engineering, data science, statistics, and leadership to deliver evaluation products and support data-driven decisions.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math, or another quantitative area.
- Strong self-motivation to navigate complex systems and complete open-ended problems.
- Experience navigating and modifying large codebases; performing statistical analyses; building data-processing pipelines; and writing, reviewing, and merging maintainable code.
- Quantitative and data fluency.
Nice to have
- Experience with ML, A/B experiment infrastructure, metric development and validation, ad-hoc data analysis tools, or the AV industry.
- Experience coding in C++.
Pay
$204,000 — $259,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python, SQL
AI focus
Use machine learning techniques to develop signals measuring autonomous-driving performance and qualities.
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