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Software Engineer

Perm - N/aRemoteFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)$200,000–$216,000 /yrPosted 2 months ago

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Role summary

Waymo is seeking a Software Engineer to design, develop, and test software for self-driving vehicle applications. This role involves creating and maintaining data pipelines and infrastructure for foundation models, curating datasets for ML tasks, and collaborating with various teams to integrate data generation into model training and evaluation. The position requires a Master's degree in a related field and one year of experience in C++, Python, data pipeline tools (Spark, Beam, Dataflow), cloud data pipeline services (AWS Data Pipeline or Faiss), and ML data engineering practices. The role emphasizes ensuring infrastructure reliability, data availability, and data quality.

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's 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’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

You will:

  • Design, develop, modify, and/or test software needed for various state-of-the-art self-driving vehicle applications and related products at Waymo. Duties include:

  • Develop infrastructure and frameworks for generating reliable, high quality data for foundation models;
  • Deploy and maintain end-to-end data pipelines that deliver the foundation model data;
  • Curate and deliver data sets, for both nominal and rare instances, that support the diverse ML tasks for foundation models;
  • Collaborate with foundation model, Perception evaluation, and ML infrastructure teams to integrate data generation into model training and evaluation frameworks; and
  • Collaborate with production teams to deploy foundation models in deployment settings; and Responsible for infrastructure reliability, data availability, and data quality

    • You have:

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or in a Software Engineer-related occupation.
  • Position requires one year of experience in the following:
    1. C++ and Python;
    2. Apache Spark, Apache Beam, and Google Cloud Dataflow;
    3. AWS Data Pipeline or Faiss; and
    4. ML data engineering, data pipelines, data curation, and data balancing

    The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

    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.

    Salary Range
    $200,000 - $216,000 USD
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    Sample Waymo interview questions

    • 1

      Design a data ingestion system

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    • 2

      Longest Substring with Two Distinct Characters Find the longest substring with at most two distinct characters. Input: s = "ccaabbb" Output: 5 Explanation: The substring "aabbb" contains exactly two distinct characters and has a maximum length of 5.

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    • 3

      Alien Dictionary Order Derive the alien dictionary order from a sorted list of alien words. Input: words = ["z","x","z"] Output: "" (Empty String) Explanation: The letter 'z' cannot come before 'x' and then suddenly after 'x', creating a cycle and making the dictionary invalid.

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    • 4

      Palindrome After Deleting One Character Determine if a string can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character. Input: s = "abc" Output: FALSE Explanation: Deleting any single character leaves either "ab", "bc", or "ac", none of which result in a valid palindrome.

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