Waymo
Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead Manager - Mapping
Waymo, Mountain View, California, us, 94039
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.
The Waymo Mapping team's goal is to build a high resolution map of the world to support safe autonomous driving. We work on creating the map using a combination of automatic and manual techniques and build the infrastructure to store, process, and distribute the map. Our team collaborates with several other Waymo teams that consume map data.
In this role, you will:
Lead a team of software engineers to help us scale our mapping infrastructure and to transform the mapping schema
Evaluate and launch machine learning models that automatically generate map from raw data
Work with onboard teams to evolve Waymo’s mapping format to make it more automation friendly
Build backend infrastructure for storing and processing many forms of map data
Scale our systems to support mapping the whole world
You have:
Experienced manager and technical leader
> 7 years of total experience, > 2 years experience as a manager
Proven track record of leading a team to solve difficult technical challenges
Experience with large‑scale data processing using frameworks like Google Data Flow or Apache Beam
Willingness to own problems end‑to‑end and work on various parts of the system
A passion for good software engineering
Bonus if you have:
M.S. or Ph.D in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Experience in Mapping and Localization
Experience with Tensorflow and/or C++
Salary Range: $238,000 — $302,000 USD
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.
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The Waymo Mapping team's goal is to build a high resolution map of the world to support safe autonomous driving. We work on creating the map using a combination of automatic and manual techniques and build the infrastructure to store, process, and distribute the map. Our team collaborates with several other Waymo teams that consume map data.
In this role, you will:
Lead a team of software engineers to help us scale our mapping infrastructure and to transform the mapping schema
Evaluate and launch machine learning models that automatically generate map from raw data
Work with onboard teams to evolve Waymo’s mapping format to make it more automation friendly
Build backend infrastructure for storing and processing many forms of map data
Scale our systems to support mapping the whole world
You have:
Experienced manager and technical leader
> 7 years of total experience, > 2 years experience as a manager
Proven track record of leading a team to solve difficult technical challenges
Experience with large‑scale data processing using frameworks like Google Data Flow or Apache Beam
Willingness to own problems end‑to‑end and work on various parts of the system
A passion for good software engineering
Bonus if you have:
M.S. or Ph.D in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Experience in Mapping and Localization
Experience with Tensorflow and/or C++
Salary Range: $238,000 — $302,000 USD
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.
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