This role will be hybrid in-office and work from home reporting to a Sr. Manager

Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you're a software engineer or researcher who's curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you.

The Waymo Logs Data Acquisition team owns the infrastructure for collecting, selecting, and ingesting the data from the autonomous vehicles into the cloud. Some of its responsibilities include:

• Onboard logging collection infrastructure, including data formats, APIs, and libraries.
• Data ingestion pipeline, including uploader modules over LTE/Wifi/wired connections, temporary storage, and post-upload data processing infrastructure.
• Offboard components that facilitate onboard data collection and ingestion, including quotas, sampling, and prioritized upload requests.
• Strategy and onboard+offboard infrastructure that maximizes the value of the limited data collected in the face of multiple requirements, physical and budgetary constraints, safety and regulatory requirements. This includes application of novel statistical sampling methods and ML.
• Achieving operational readiness to scale #miles driven by orders of magnitude, including reliability improvements and elimination of overheads that scale linearly with miles.

Day-to-day activities and responsibilities may include:

• Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for developing Waymo Logs & Data Acquisition infrastructure, align with strategy, provide mentorship and career growth opportunities.
• Work in close relationships with partners and stakeholders across Waymo (Simulation, Planner, Perception, Analysis, Release Eval, Onboard Infra, Mapping, Ops, Hardware, Depot Infra, Legal, Product) to build joint strategy and roadmaps.
• Understand and improve the behavior of production systems, including instrumentation, bug fixes, provisioning, and reliability improvements.
• Improve the automation, code health, technical debt and simplify the system.
• Brainstorm, design and build new infrastructure features.
• Provide support for partners and clients.

Required experience:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience in a people management and team leadership role.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven track record of driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries.
• Good working knowledge of C++.

Preferred experience:

• Familiarity with Data Engineering

While at Waymo, you will enjoy benefits that cover...

Health and wellness: Our people are at the heart of everything we do. At Waymo, you can enjoy top-notch medical, dental and vision insurance, mental wellness support, a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), a Health Saving Account (HSA), and special wellness programs.

Financial wellness: Your financial peace of mind is important to us. At Waymo, we offer competitive compensation, bonus opportunities, equity, a generous 401(k) plan, 1-on-1 financial coaching, a 529 College Savings Plan and lots of other perks and employee discounts.

Flexibility and time off: Take the time you need to relax and recharge. Enjoy the flexibility to work from another location for four weeks per year. We support an on-site or hybrid work model and offer remote working opportunities, paid time off, bereavement, sick, and parental leave.

Supporting families: When it comes to growing your family or caring for your loved ones, you have our full support. Enhanced leave options include paid parental leave (birthing parent gets 24 weeks of paid leave with up to 4 weeks of additional leave before their due date, and non-birthing parent gets 18 weeks of paid leave), and 20 days of subsidized backup childcare or adult/elder care.. Access to fertility care or adoption support as you grow your family.

Community and personal development: At Waymo, you'll find a range of opportunities to grow, connect, and give back. We offer education reimbursement, personal and professional development, mentorship, and other ways to connect through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), other internal groups, and even time off to volunteer.

Cool perks: Access to Google offices, cafes, wellness centers, massages, and so much more. To support your wellbeing at home, you can enjoy at-home fitness and cooking classes, and more.

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