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[Remote] Software Engineer, Planner (L4)

Work from home Full-time role Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The role involves working on software that enables the Waymo Driver to perceive the environment, make decisions, and ensure safe transportation.

Responsibilities

  • Work with a creative team of people who ensure that the behavior of our cars is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users, which includes gracefully handling many complex situations involving social aspects (merging, negotiating narrow roads), while dealing with noisy, uncertain, and incomplete information
  • Frame the open-ended real-world problems into well-defined engineering problems; develop tools, algorithms and evaluation mechanisms; scale them to Google-sized data pipelines; and refine them to run in real-time on the cars

Skills

  • BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years general software engineering experience programming in C++ with efficient code
  • Experience collaborating with different teams
  • MS in Computer Science, ML Robotics, similar technical field of study
  • General software engineering experience solving motion planning or related robotics problems
  • Experience solving or evaluating ML-based systems

Company Overview

  • Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://waymo.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Waymo has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 105 in 2026, 231 in 2025, 175 in 2024, 268 in 2023, 306 in 2022, 298 in 2021, 317 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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