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Staff Software Engineer, Planner

Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)💼 Full-time💰 $251,000–$251,000🗓 2026-07-06 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology, specifically focusing on motion planning and decision-making for Level 4 autonomous vehicles.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Motion Planning)

Builds

Waymo Driver software for fully autonomous ride-hail service

Domain

Autonomous driving, robotics, deep learning

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

C++ programming, motion planning, robotics, algorithm development, scaling to large data pipelines, real-time system optimization

Preferred skills

MS in CS/ML/Robotics, ML-based system evaluation, complex social scenario handling

Technologies

C++, Google-sized data pipelines

Responsibilities

Frame open-ended real-world problems into well-defined engineering problems; develop tools, algorithms and evaluation mechanisms; scale them to large data pipelines; refine them to run in real-time on cars.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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