Software Quality Operations Specialist, Domain Expansion
Core
Ensuring the safety, reliability, and quality of Waymo's autonomous driving system by building scalable operations powered by AI to support market expansion and engineering velocity.
Role type
Senior Software Quality Operations Specialist (Autonomous Driving)
Builds
A single, automated, end-to-end machine learning flywheel for the Waymo Driver to enable faster ODD expansion and quicker remediation of driving issues.
Domain
Autonomous Vehicles / Machine Learning Operations
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine Learning lifecycle support, ML testing and validation, dataset quality assurance, bias detection, edge-case scenario testing, statistical metrics analysis, driving rules and regulations knowledge, SOP development, cross-functional stakeholder management, workflow scaling.
Preferred skills
LLM / transformer models experience, ML for robotics domain experience, SQL querying, PLX coding, offshore team management, AV safety performance assessment.
Technologies
Generative AI, ML models, SQL, PLX
Responsibilities
Partner with Engineering to design, test, and deploy ML and Gen-AI models for issue discovery and triage; leverage AI insights to proactively identify emerging on-road issue trends and edge cases; define and document policies and SOPs integrating AI tools into vendor workflows; design and implement quality control processes for human and AI-generated outputs; act as subject matter expert for SWQOps to ensure adoption of AI/ML advancements; provide technical leadership to enhance workflows and escalate tooling issues; scale workflow from 16/5 to 24/7.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC