About the position
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. The Simulator team builds state of the art simulations of realistic environments for the testing and training of the Waymo driver. We use machine learning to model the real world, including realistic agents (vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists), roads, traffic control systems, and weather. To guide the development of simulator realism components, we create metrics to measure realism, which are used to assess the quality of the simulator, identify sim2real gaps, and used as loss functions to train a more realistic simulator - which in turn is used to assess the quality of the Waymo Driver.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
