Senior Software Engineer, Statistical Evaluation and Sampling
Core
Develop importance sampling techniques and build automated pipelines to efficiently discover rare and exceptional scenarios in autonomous driving evaluation.
Role type
Senior IC software engineer (statistical evaluation & sampling)
Builds
Automated evaluation pipelines for the Waymo Driver
Domain
Autonomous driving / Statistical analysis
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Importance sampling, statistical analysis, data processing pipelines, C++, Python, SQL, code health, large codebase navigation
Preferred skills
Sampling method development, ML model design and evaluation, AV industry experience, technical leadership
Technologies
C++, Python, SQL
Responsibilities
Develop importance sampling techniques to maximize statistical efficiency; Find signals in logs and simulations to discover rare events; Build systems optimizing multiple objectives under resource constraints; Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and statisticians to deliver evaluation products; Champion code health and best practices in a complex codebase