Software Engineer - Perception Optimization

Join Nuro as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Perception Data Infrastructure. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for developing and optimizing systems that process perception data, enabling our autonomous vehicles to navigate safely and efficiently. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our data infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability.

Aeva is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our Perception Data Infrastructure team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing scalable systems to manage and process perception data efficiently. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to innovate and enhance our perception capabilities, contributing to the overall success of our cutting-edge technology.

About the RoleJoin our dynamic team of experts where machine learning and systems engineering intersect to enhance the performance of autonomous systems. As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Perception Machine Learning Data, you will play a crucial role in integrating machine learning advancements with autonomy infrastructure, ensuring that our models are trained using the most pertinent, diverse, and high-quality datasets. Your contributions will significantly influence how autonomous systems recognize uncommon scenarios, adapt to various geographical contexts, and operate safely at scale.Key Responsibilities Include:Utilizing Vision Language Models (VLMs) to compile diverse datasets that reflect real-world driving patterns across different regions.Creating high-fidelity synthetic data frameworks across multiple sensor modalities.Enhancing machine learning-powered validation processes for data quality and model preparedness.Your Impact:High-Output Generalist: Collaborate across various domains including autonomy, infrastructure, databases, simulation, and machine learning development, while expanding your expertise in Robotics and ML.Robotics Specialist: Develop cutting-edge solutions for data discovery, automated labeling, and synthetic data generation in close cooperation with the Infrastructure and Autonomy teams.About the WorkTackle the most demanding data challenges in autonomy by applying machine learning and rigorous systems engineering principles:Design hybrid systems that combine deep learning with traditional algorithms for scalable data curation and annotation.Create frameworks to evaluate the real-world authenticity of synthetic data and enhance the quality of synthetic data rendering.Develop tools to automatically identify data gaps that affect the performance of perception models.Collaborate with autonomy engineers to transform raw sensor data into prioritized training objectives, addressing critical gaps that hinder perception and autonomy performance.About YouBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.Experience:4+ years of professional software engineering experience, proficient in Python and familiar with C/C++. Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical projects from conception to execution.You have hands-on experience in implementing machine learning solutions and enjoy embedding them into practical systems. Your focus is on delivering impactful, integrated solutions rather than solely theoretical ML projects.Bonus PointsExperience working with synthetic or autonomous driving data.Background in building machine learning systems for robotic applications.

Waymo is a leader in autonomous driving technology dedicated to becoming the most trusted driver in the world. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, our focus has been on creating the Waymo Driver—an exceptional driver that enhances mobility access while significantly reducing traffic-related fatalities. The Waymo Driver not only supports our fully autonomous ride-hailing service but can also be adapted to various vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips completed, our technology has safely navigated more than 100 million miles on public roads and processed tens of billions of miles in simulation across over 15 U.S. states.The Perception Data team at Waymo plays a critical role in shaping the strategy and technical direction for all data utilized in training and evaluating the Waymo Driver's perception capabilities. We manage the complete data lifecycle, developing automated systems and 'infrastructure-as-product' solutions that convert vast amounts of driving sensor data into high-quality training datasets. Our team tackles complex challenges, including active learning loops and open-vocabulary modeling, bridging raw data with advanced machine learning techniques.By integrating data ingestion, curation, and evaluation into a unified ecosystem, we facilitate the swift development of foundational models and next-generation perception systems. We work closely with Machine Learning, Infrastructure, and Evaluation teams to address intricate data challenges, ensuring our models can effectively interpret the long-tail of rare events. Ultimately, our contributions lay the groundwork for the Waymo Driver to operate safely in diverse environments.

As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Perception Verification at Waymo, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the safety and performance of autonomous driving technology. Your expertise will guide the development of innovative algorithms and systems that validate perception capabilities, ensuring our vehicles can navigate the complexities of real-world environments.This position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of technology, collaborating with a talented team of engineers and researchers dedicated to revolutionizing transportation.

Waymo is leading the way in autonomous driving technology with a mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo is dedicated to developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance accessibility to transportation while preventing countless lives lost in traffic accidents. Our innovative Waymo Driver underpins our fully autonomous ride-hailing service and is adaptable to various vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips facilitated by our technology, we have driven more than 100 million miles on public roads and logged tens of billions of miles in simulation across more than 15 U.S. states.The Perception Evaluation team at Waymo is pioneering advancements in autonomous driving, prioritizing the safety and reliability of our self-driving systems. Our team leverages state-of-the-art tools and methodologies to rigorously evaluate the performance of our perception systems, which are essential for the safe and effective operation of autonomous vehicles. We are currently seeking a Software Engineer to be instrumental in shaping the future of transportation and enhancing the quality and reliability of Waymo's autonomous vehicles.In this hybrid role, you will report directly to an Engineering Manager.

At Intrinsic Robotics, a part of Alphabet, we are on a mission to revolutionize industrial robotics. We believe that advancements in artificial intelligence, perception, and simulation will redefine the capabilities of industrial robotics in the near future, with software and data at the heart of this transformation. Our vision is to make industrial robotics more intelligent, accessible, and user-friendly for countless businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers. We are a vibrant team of engineers, roboticists, designers, and technology enthusiasts dedicated to unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics.Role OverviewAs a Software Engineer on our Data Infrastructure team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining the data infrastructure that drives our state-of-the-art robotics systems. Your contributions will facilitate the design, development, and operational workflows for robotics, integrating with Kubernetes-based cloud and on-device services. This includes the systems responsible for collecting and processing real-world data from our robots, feeding that information into our machine learning pipelines to train and assess the models that empower our robots with intelligence. You will collaborate closely with an enthusiastic Product and Engineering team to create software that enhances the capabilities of fleets of robots.Your Impact on Our MissionDesign, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines for the collection, processing, and storage of vast amounts of robotics data (including sensor data, telemetry, and logs).Construct data pipelines to train the next generation of functional robot models.Develop and support tools and infrastructure for data exploration, analysis, and visualization.Implement and uphold best practices for data security and privacy.Collaborate with Customers, Product Managers, and Researchers to tailor data pipelines for analysis and research.

Join LinkedIn as a Distinguished Software Engineer specializing in Data Infrastructure, where you will lead innovative projects that enhance our data capabilities and support millions of users worldwide. This role requires a deep understanding of data architecture and an ability to design scalable solutions.

About Us:Aeva is at the forefront of perception technology, revolutionizing a myriad of industries including automated driving, industrial robotics, consumer electronics, consumer health, and security. Our mission is to pioneer the next generation of perception technologies, integrating essential LiDAR components into a compact silicon photonics chip. Our cutting-edge 4D LiDAR sensors offer unique capabilities, such as instant velocity detection alongside 3D positioning, empowering autonomous devices like vehicles and robots to make smarter, safer decisions.Role Overview:We are seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Perception Engineer to enhance our classical perception algorithms stack. As a critical member of our dynamic team, you will delve into the capabilities of Aeva’s 4D FMCW LiDARs, pushing the boundaries of autonomous driving performance further than ever before.

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, driven by the mission to become the world’s most trusted driver. Born from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has dedicated itself to developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility and save lives that are often lost in traffic accidents. The Waymo Driver powers our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, which can be adapted for various vehicle platforms and use cases. With over ten million rider-only trips completed and experience accumulated from driving over 100 million miles on public roads, alongside tens of billions of miles in simulation across more than 15 U.S. states, Waymo is redefining transportation.The Perception team is integral to the Waymo Driver's success, crafting cutting-edge technology that enables our autonomous systems to accurately understand their environment, make informed decisions in real-time, and transport passengers safely to their destinations. We engage in research to tackle real-world challenges and collaborate with other innovative teams at Alphabet. Our access to extensive driving data collected through diverse sensors empowers software engineers like you to create and scale multi-modal models and techniques.Our objective is to establish a robust foundation for a high-level Perception pipeline, which is a fundamental component of the self-driving system. We serve as the essential link between Waymo's hardware teams and the broader engineering organization focused on self-driving technology, defining sensor specifications, providing vital feedback, and simplifying system complexities.In this hybrid role, you will report directly to a Technical Lead Manager.

About Us Nuro is a pioneering self-driving technology company dedicated to making autonomous solutions accessible to everyone. Established in 2016, we are developing the most scalable autonomous driver by integrating advanced AI with automotive-grade hardware. Our flagship technology, the Nuro Driver™, is licensed to facilitate a variety of applications, including robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. With proven technology from years of self-driving deployments, Nuro provides automakers and mobility platforms with a clear pathway to achieving commercial-scale autonomous vehicles, promoting a safer, more connected future. Role Overview At Nuro, we adopt a machine-learning-first strategy in our approach to autonomous driving technology. The performance of our systems is significantly influenced by the quality and diversity of training and evaluation data. Your team will be pivotal in enhancing our autonomous driving systems by establishing a robust and scalable data infrastructure. This infrastructure will generate training and evaluation data from both real-world driving logs and simulated environments. Collaborating closely with system engineers, you will ensure thorough validation of the autonomous driving system prior to deployment. Key Responsibilities Design and implement cohesive, introspectable data pipelines capable of processing large-scale batch and streaming data across diverse evaluation use cases. Develop a storage solution that efficiently manages extensive volumes and a wide variety of performance metrics. Create user-friendly dashboards and reports to display evaluation results, enabling easy comparisons to highlight improvements and regressions in ML components and the overall system. Establish and maintain continuous testing and monitoring systems to ensure the integrity and robustness of our data and data pipelines. Build data mining tools utilizing applied ML techniques to meet data discovery requirements in areas such as Perception, Behavior, and Mapping. Develop data annotation tools to aid both first-party and third-party labeling efforts, ensuring high-fidelity perception, mapping, and trajectory labels. Scale data annotation labels with cutting-edge ML techniques. Qualifications A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (BS, MS, or PhD) combined with at least 4 years of relevant professional experience. Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages. Experience in data engineering, machine learning, or related fields. Familiarity with data pipeline tools and frameworks. Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has tirelessly worked on developing the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access and save lives lost to traffic accidents. The Waymo Driver fuels our fully autonomous ride-hailing service and can adapt to various vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips completed, Waymo has amassed more than 100 million miles driven autonomously on public roads, supplemented by tens of billions of simulated miles across 15+ U.S. states.The Perception team at Waymo is instrumental in crafting the technology that empowers the Waymo Driver. Our advanced models enable the Waymo Driver to interpret its surroundings, make informed decisions, and ensure safe passage for passengers. Engaging in research to tackle real-world challenges, we collaborate closely with Alphabet's research teams. Our access to extensive driving data from diverse sensors allows machine learning practitioners to develop scalable multi-modal models and techniques.You will report directly to our Director of Engineering within the Perception Organization.

Nuro develops self-driving technology, aiming to make autonomous vehicles accessible for everyone. Since 2016, the team has blended advanced AI with automotive-grade hardware, licensing the Nuro Driver™ to support robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. Partnerships with automakers and mobility platforms help bring these autonomous solutions to commercial scale. The Senior Software Engineer - Software Update Infrastructure role is part of the Fleet Connectivity team based in Mountain View, California. This position focuses on building and maintaining systems that support release infrastructure and over-the-air (OTA) updates for Nuro’s autonomous vehicles. The work covers both cloud and robotics stacks, ensuring reliable network connectivity, telemetry, and software updates that are vital to Nuro’s mission. What you will do Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain software for release infrastructure and OTA updates. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables within the team and when working with other groups. Write high-quality, testable code that meets strict code quality standards. Monitor release system performance by defining and tracking KPIs, and implement optimizations to improve build costs, times, and storage usage. Create testing and validation programs to ensure system architecture and data flows are reliable. Contribute to documentation and participate in on-call rotations during business hours. Requirements 5+ years of experience working with large-scale distributed systems. Proficiency in C++ or Go. Comfortable working in Unix/Linux environments and with Bash scripting. Ability to translate broad requirements into detailed system designs. Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and distributed system software design. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field. Bonus points Experience with SQL. Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). UI development experience. Background in OTA updates execution and management.

P-59 At Databricks, we are driven by a mission to empower data teams to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing our world. Whether it's transforming transportation or accelerating medical innovations, we achieve this by creating and operating the foremost data and AI infrastructure platform. Our customers leverage deep data insights to enhance their business operations. Founded by engineers with a relentless commitment to customer satisfaction, we eagerly embrace every opportunity to address technical challenges—from designing cutting-edge UI/UX for data interaction to scaling our services across millions of virtual machines. And this is just the beginning. In modern data analysis, advanced techniques such as machine learning surpass the capabilities of conventional SQL query engines. As a software engineer on the Runtime team at Databricks, you will be instrumental in developing next-gen distributed data storage and processing systems that not only outperform specialized SQL query engines in relational query performance but also offer the flexibility and programming abstractions necessary to support a diverse range of workloads, from ETL processes to data science applications. Key projects you might work on include: Apache Spark™: Contribute to the leading open-source framework for big data. Data Plane Storage: Deliver reliable, high-performance services and client libraries for managing vast amounts of data on cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and Azure Blob Store. Delta Lake: A sophisticated storage management system that merges the scalability and cost-effectiveness of data lakes with the performance and reliability of data warehouses, offering features such as ACID transactions and time travel to simplify complex data engineering architectures. Delta Pipelines: Simplify the management of extensive data engineering pipelines, allowing customers to effortlessly orchestrate, deploy, test, and upgrade thousands of data pipelines while minimizing operational burdens. Performance Engineering: Develop the next-generation query optimizer and execution engine that is fast, tuning-free, scalable, and robust.

Join Waymo as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Simulation Infrastructure, where you will lead the development of innovative simulation tools and frameworks that enhance our self-driving technology. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design robust software solutions that drive our mission to make transportation safer and more accessible through autonomous driving.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in Compute Infrastructure, you'll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure systems. Your expertise will help drive performance and scalability, ensuring our platforms support the ever-increasing demand for data processing and storage. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions that enhance our technology stack.

P-1124 Summary At Databricks, we are passionate about empowering data teams to tackle the world's most challenging issues, from detecting security threats to advancing cancer drug development. We achieve this by developing and maintaining the leading data and AI infrastructure platform, allowing our clients to concentrate on the critical challenges that define their missions. Our engineering teams are dedicated to creating highly sophisticated products that address genuine, vital needs in society. We continually explore the frontiers of data and AI technology while ensuring the resilience, security, and scalability essential for our customers' success on our platform. Clients trust Databricks with their most valuable data, and the Trust & Safety team is committed to establishing the most reliable data analytics and machine learning platform globally. Security Engineering plays a pivotal role within Trust & Safety, crucially safeguarding customer data from malicious threats. We seek senior leaders to craft the vision and define the strategy for this crucial domain. The impact you will have: Enhance the safety of Databricks for our customers by identifying and addressing critical gaps in our infrastructure and services. Attract top-tier talent from across the industry. Serve as a key advocate for the security engineering discipline throughout the organization, promoting a data-driven approach. Represent Databricks at academic and industry conferences and events.

Your Role As a key member of the Core Infrastructure team at Moveworks, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the next evolution of our AI infrastructure. With Moveworks experiencing rapid growth, the infrastructure team is charged with creating and maintaining robust foundational services and frameworks that empower our products to scale effortlessly while enabling our engineering teams to rapidly develop customer-facing features. Collaborate closely with teams in machine learning, search, product development, data, and frontend engineering to assess infrastructure requirements, shape the infrastructure roadmap, and spearhead various projects. Design and develop core infrastructure and essential functionalities including distributed key-value stores, schema-less data storage, authentication and authorization mechanisms, event streaming, distributed configuration management, rate limiting, circuit breaking, feature flagging systems, A/B testing, and traffic capture and replay. Enhance the observability and reliability of Moveworks systems by improving distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting capabilities. Establish methodologies and metrics for assessing the performance of microservices and product functionalities, identify and resolve bottlenecks, and enhance the performance and scalability of Moveworks applications. Consistently deliver time-sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams.

At Databricks, we are committed to empowering data teams to tackle some of the world's most significant challenges—ranging from revolutionizing transportation to accelerating medical breakthroughs. Our mission is realized through the development and management of the foremost data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our clients to derive deep insights from their data to enhance business outcomes. Founded by engineers and driven by a passion for customer success, we eagerly embrace each opportunity to confront technical hurdles, from innovating next-generation UI/UX for data interaction to scaling our services across millions of virtual machines. Our journey has just begun.As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be a pivotal member of the executive leadership team within the Data Platform organization. You will utilize cutting-edge AI developer tools and methodologies to construct the Data Intelligence Platform, which will facilitate automated decision-making across Databricks. This role involves collaboration with distinguished Tech Leads, product teams, data scientists, and others. You will shape the future of various tools, including logging, orchestration, data transformation, metric stores, governance platforms, and data consumption layers.