Simulator Engineer - Remote

Overview

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

In Short

• Develop novel methods to measure sim realism in the context of several simulator tech and applications
• Develop efficient platform to allow measuring sim realism at scale
• Design systems that can automatically discover useful realism metrics to guide simulator development
• Collaborate with a world-class engineering and research team that use large models to improve sim realism
• Be a part of a collaborative engineering team that build a realistic simulator which powers the evaluation of the Waymo Driver

Requirements

• Coding and design skills
• 5+ years of experience navigating a complex product space and setting technical roadmaps
• 5+ years of experience building scalable infrastructure, or in evaluating complex systems

Benefits

• Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.