Staff Software Engineer/Data Scientist, Large Model Evaluation
WaymoMountain View, California, United States • San Francisco, California, United States
Posted December 29, 2025
238000 - 302000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer/Data Scientist position at Waymo to develop novel metrics and sampling techniques to measure the driving trajectories generated by ML models.
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant industry experience in a heavily quantitative software engineering area
- Experience navigating complex technical and product landscapes, defining technical strategy, and creating roadmaps.
- Proficiency in programming in Python or C++
- Experience with software design principles, coding best practices, testing methodologies, and version control software.
- Experience building software pipelines for data processing, system evaluation, or metric computation, in the context of large-scale systems.
- Knowledge of AI fundamentals, such as transformer architectures, distillation techniques, etc.
- Experience evaluating the quality of ML models
- Demonstrated experience taking quantitative findings through to productionized tools.
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program