About this role
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Planner to work on ensuring the behavior of their autonomous vehicles is safe and predictable, while developing tools and algorithms for real-time data processing.
Responsibilities:
- Work with a creative team of people who ensure that the behavior of our cars is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users, which includes gracefully handling many complex situations involving social aspects (merging, negotiating narrow roads), while dealing with noisy, uncertain, and incomplete information
- Frame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined engineering problems; develop tools, algorithms and evaluation mechanisms; scale them to Google-sized data pipelines; and refine them to run in real-time on the cars