Software Engineer - Statistical Evaluation and Sampling

Waymo, a pioneering leader in autonomous driving technology, aims to be the world’s most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, our mission centers on developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access while significantly reducing traffic-related fatalities. The Waymo Driver is the backbone of our fully autonomous ride-hailing service and is versatile across various vehicle platforms and applications. To date, it has successfully facilitated over ten million rider-only trips, driven autonomously over 100 million miles on public roads, and conducted tens of billions of miles in simulation across more than 15 U.S. states.In Waymo’s Perception Evaluation team, we focus on delivering rapid, actionable, and seamless development cycles and releases for all aspects of Perception. Our team is responsible for designing, building, and refining vital evaluation workflows, ensuring high-quality and efficient evaluation processes. Collaborating closely with teams in Machine Learning, Simulation, Data Science, and Infrastructure, we empower Perception teams to enhance model performance and software quality, leading to successful and secure launches.In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.

Who We AreNuro is at the forefront of self-driving technology, dedicated to democratizing access to autonomy. Established in 2016, our mission is to create the world's most scalable self-driving system by integrating advanced AI with automotive-grade hardware. We license our flagship technology, the Nuro Driver™, across various applications including robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. With years of proven success in self-driving deployments, Nuro paves the way for automakers and mobility platforms to achieve commercial-scale autonomous vehicles, contributing to a safer, more connected future.About the RoleWe are seeking an innovative Autonomy Leader to spearhead the technical roadmap for the systems that validate and verify the intelligence of the Nuro Driver. You will lead the creation of evaluation tools that ensure our technology can scale safely to millions of users. This role involves addressing real-world robotics challenges and enhancing everyday lives by bridging the divide between simulation and reality.Intelligent Agents: Design and implement advanced evaluation agents that simulate complex interactions.Intelligent Metrics: Develop sophisticated algorithms to measure the cognitive performance of the machine learning models that govern our self-driving car's behavior, leveraging physics-based modeling and machine learning.Close the Learning Loop: Utilize these evaluation frameworks to pinpoint specific behavioral weaknesses in the Nuro Driver, leading technical execution to enhance the agent's decision-making logic.Define the Technical Architecture: Collaborate with Autonomy and Infrastructure engineers to establish a cohesive roadmap that integrates evaluation frameworks, progressing towards automated, data-driven validation.

Waymo is a pioneering autonomous driving technology company dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating 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 access and significantly reduce traffic-related fatalities. The Waymo Driver supports our fully autonomous ride-hail service and is adaptable to various vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips and extensive experience driving over 100 million miles on public roads and countless simulations, Waymo is at the forefront of the transportation revolution.Our Software Engineering team is the brain behind Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our innovative software empowers the Waymo Driver to interpret its surroundings, make informed decisions, and ensure safe travel for passengers. We tackle intricate technical challenges in robotics, perception, decision-making, and deep learning, all while collaborating closely with hardware and systems engineers. If you are a passionate software engineer or researcher interested in Level 4 autonomous driving, we encourage you to connect with us.In this hybrid position, you will report directly to a Technical Lead Manager, Senior Staff Engineer.

At Commure, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the healthcare landscape. Our ambitious mission is to streamline the healthcare experience, establishing a new benchmark for care delivery across the industry. Our comprehensive suite of AI-driven solutions includes ambient AI clinical documentation, provider copilots, autonomous coding, and revenue cycle management, all designed to empower healthcare providers and administrators to prioritize what truly matters: patient care.The healthcare sector is a colossal $4.5 trillion industry, with over $500 billion allocated annually to administrative expenses. Commure is at the forefront of this transformation, currently serving over 500,000 clinicians across numerous care facilities nationwide. Our systems facilitate more than $10 billion in transactions and support over 100 million patient interactions. With exciting new product launches on the horizon and a strategic expansion into various care segments, our goal is to evolve from an innovative startup to the industry standard in the coming years.Recently recognized in Fortune’s Future 50 list for 2025, Commure is backed by esteemed investors such as General Catalyst, Sequoia, Y Combinator, Lux, Human Capital, 8VC, and Greenoaks Capital. With over 300% growth year-over-year for the past two years, we are on an exciting trajectory. The time for AI-driven transformation in healthcare is now, and we invite you to join us in shaping the future of this vital industry.About the PositionAs the Launch Operations Manager, you will be instrumental in delivering a smooth implementation experience for our Scribe solutions within healthcare organizations. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and key customer stakeholders, you will oversee implementation projects, manage timelines, and ensure the successful rollout of our AI medical scribe product.This is a full-time position requiring on-site work five days a week at our Mountain View, CA office, with potential travel of up to 30% for client engagement.Key ResponsibilitiesLead comprehensive implementation projects from contract closure to go-live, ensuring adherence to timelines, milestones, and deliverables.Create and maintain thorough project plans, status updates, and strategies for risk mitigation.Monitor and assess the success of implementations through established OKRs, focusing on metrics such as percentage of operational efficiency.

Join Waymo as a Tech Lead Manager for Machine Learning Optimization, where you will spearhead innovative projects to enhance our self-driving technology. In this role, you will lead a team of talented engineers and data scientists, guiding the development of advanced algorithms and optimization techniques that drive performance and reliability. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful integration of ML models into our systems, pushing the boundaries of autonomous vehicle technology.

Your RoleAre you ready to take on a thrilling challenge? Join us in scaling and optimizing a revolutionary Generative AI product that provides immediate assistance to enterprise users. Have you ever thought about how to apply abstraction, scalability, and optimization to a dynamic, probabilistic, generative conversational system? If so, we invite you to become part of our Conversation Engine team. At Moveworks, you'll work at the heart of our Generative AI platform, focusing on enhancing it to meet the increasing demands of the enterprise solution landscape. Explore our recent insights on Moveworks Live and Creator Studio, showcasing our groundbreaking solutions in enterprise AI. As leaders in the enterprise AI domain, we encourage you to bring your creative ideas to tackle unresolved challenges. You will work closely with machine learning professionals and cross-functional teams, quickly iterating on new concepts and leveraging user behavior data for informed decision-making. Your mission is to scale and optimize our conversation engine to support hundreds of millions of users across multiple chat channels and use cases, while enhancing our end-to-end product infrastructure with the highest standards of engineering quality and robustness.

Join Moveworks as a Tech Lead for our innovative Agentic AI Platform. In this pivotal role, you will spearhead the development of cutting-edge AI solutions that enhance user experiences and streamline workflows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize AI-driven applications that empower organizations to achieve their goals more efficiently.

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.

About NuroNuro is a pioneering self-driving technology company dedicated to making autonomy accessible to everyone. Established in 2016, we are developing the most scalable autonomous vehicle system, integrating advanced AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to facilitate a diverse array of applications, including robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. With years of proven self-driving deployments, our technology provides automakers and mobility platforms with a clear path to commercial-scale autonomous vehicles, fostering a safer, more connected future.Position OverviewWe are seeking an experienced engineering leader to assume the role of Director for our Evaluation Platform team. This critical platform supports the simulation, evaluation, and validation processes that are essential for the development of autonomous technologies and ensuring readiness for driverless deployment.The successful candidate will establish the technical vision, execution strategy, and organizational framework for a multidisciplinary team focused on simulation, evaluation infrastructure, and software-driven operational workflows.The evaluation platform integrates data, simulation, metrics, and analysis workflows, empowering teams to:Rapidly iterate to enhance autonomy performanceAssess autonomy performance and risk with credibility and rigorMake informed, data-driven decisions regarding driverless deploymentKey ResponsibilitiesDevelop and oversee the technical vision and roadmap for the Evaluation Platform, encompassing simulation, evaluation infrastructure, and software quality operations.Lead, mentor, and nurture a multi-team organization (including managers and senior individual contributors), promoting a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.Build and scale simulation and evaluation capabilities that cater to both rapid autonomy iteration and rigorous validation scenarios.Take ownership of the autonomy evaluation and validation platform, collaborating closely with Autonomy and Systems leadership to ensure reliability, scalability, and trust from engineering and validation teams.Represent the Evaluation Platform at the executive level, effectively communicating tradeoffs, progress, risks, and readiness.

Coupang is hiring a Senior Staff II, Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead) for the Search team in Mountain View, USA. This position centers on building and enhancing the core technology behind search for one of South Korea’s largest e-commerce platforms. Role overview This role focuses on designing, developing, and refining machine learning systems that directly impact how millions of people shop online. As a technical lead, expect to work on projects that shape the search experience and improve the accuracy and speed of results for Coupang’s customers. Team and culture Coupang encourages teams to launch new initiatives and solve complex problems. Employees regularly see the results of their work, both in personal growth and in the company’s progress. The culture blends the drive of a startup with the stability and resources of a global public company. What makes this role unique Work on technology that influences how millions shop online. Join a team that prioritizes innovation and ongoing improvement. Contribute to a company known for transforming e-commerce in South Korea. Experience the energy of a startup with the support of a global organization. This is a chance to help define the future of commerce as part of Coupang’s technology-driven Search team.

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, our focus has been on developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access and save countless lives lost to traffic accidents. The Waymo Driver underpins our fully autonomous ride-hail service, with applications across various vehicle platforms and use cases. With over ten million rider-only trips facilitated, our technology has autonomously navigated over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions of miles in simulation across more than 15 U.S. states.The Safety Evaluation team acts as the guardians of safety, integrating data analysis expertise and thorough validation into our autonomous driving systems. We work in close collaboration with engineering teams to ground the evaluation of machine learning-intensive systems in safety principles. Our deep knowledge permeates every aspect of our safety-critical systems, ensuring that every decision made by our vehicles is supported by rigorous analysis and sound reasoning. Our mission extends beyond mere assessment to innovation, as we develop advanced ML techniques specifically designed for the intricacies of collision evaluation. Ultimately, we are paving the way for safer roads and a future in which Waymo vehicles navigate the complexities of the real world with confidence.As a Senior Data Scientist specializing in Safety Evaluation at Waymo, you will be pivotal in ensuring the safety and reliability of our autonomous vehicles. Your role will encompass a wide range of data analysis, model development, and evaluation tasks. While no two days are the same at Waymo, your core responsibilities will include:Creating safety evaluation frameworks essential for enhancing ML models.Designing and executing comprehensive data analysis pipelines and validation frameworks.Utilizing statistical methods and ML models to analyze historical/simulation data and evaluate safety performance.Collaborating with cross-functional teams such as Simulation and Planning to guarantee thorough safety evaluations across the autonomous driving system.

Waymo is seeking a Staff Technical Lead Manager to join the Behaviors team, based in either Mountain View or San Francisco, CA. This team is dedicated to advancing autonomous driving by improving the algorithms that shape vehicle behavior on the road. Role overview This position centers on leading efforts to enhance how autonomous vehicles make real-time decisions. The work directly impacts the safety and efficiency of Waymo's self-driving technology. What you will do Lead projects that shape the decision-making processes of autonomous vehicles Collaborate with engineers and researchers to develop and optimize algorithms focused on safety and operational efficiency Provide technical guidance and mentor team members to support their growth Locations Mountain View, CA, USA San Francisco, CA, USA

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 been committed to developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access and save lives lost to traffic accidents. The Waymo Driver not only powers our fully autonomous ride-hailing service but can also be adapted to various vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips under its belt, the Waymo Driver has driven autonomously over 100 million miles on public roads and completed tens of billions of miles in simulation across more than 15 U.S. states.The Planner Evaluation team tackles one of the primary challenges in autonomous driving: assessing and elevating the quality of the software steering the car. We seek data-driven software engineers and data scientists who are passionate about autonomous vehicles and adept at utilizing complex data to inform decision-making. If this excites you, we encourage you to apply!This position follows a hybrid work model and reports to an Engineering Manager.

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.

ID.me seeks a Principal Technical Lead Manager to guide two core engineering teams: Organization Platform and Data Acquisition & Normalization. This leadership role is based in Mountain View, California. Role overview The Principal Technical Lead Manager will shape how organizations are represented, validated, and trusted within the ID.me Identity Trust Graph. The position also oversees management of attribute data that supports trust decisions across the platform. Organization Platform This team is responsible for building and maintaining APIs and services that create, validate, and manage organization records. Key areas include application management, domain verification, business onboarding, and managing relationships between organizations. Their work enables developer portal adoption, partner integrations, and supports downstream identity workflows by providing an authoritative source for business and institution representation. Data Acquisition & Normalization This group develops connectors to authoritative and commercial data sources, such as government registries, telecom providers, and licensing authorities. The team standardizes varied data into common schemas and integrates validated attributes into the trust graph at internet scale. What you will do Oversee technical architecture, delivery, reliability, and operational health for both the Organization Platform and Data Acquisition & Normalization teams. Support the growth and performance of engineering teams working on these platforms. Work closely with Product and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful outcomes. This position is located in Mountain View, California.

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, striving to become the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been dedicated to developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—with the goal of enhancing mobility access while aiming to reduce the tragic loss of lives due to traffic accidents. The Waymo Driver not only fuels our fully autonomous ride-hailing service but is also adaptable across various vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million trips solely for riders and extensive experience from autonomously navigating over 100 million miles on public roads, alongside tens of billions of miles in simulation across more than 15 U.S. states, we are leading the charge in this transformative technology.The Large Model Evaluation team plays a pivotal role in advancing Waymo's AI vision. As we integrate cutting-edge Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), our aim is to construct sophisticated AI systems capable of addressing the multifaceted challenges of real-world driving. Central to our achievements is the ability to accurately measure our progress. In a landscape where robust evaluation serves as a critical barrier to deploying large models, the intricacies of this task at Waymo are particularly complex and safety-sensitive. We seek quantitatively driven engineers to innovate and propose novel methodologies for evaluating the ML models utilized in the Waymo Driver.

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, striving to become the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has dedicated itself to creating the Waymo Driver—the world's most experienced driver™—with the aim of enhancing mobility access while preventing the countless lives lost in traffic accidents. The Waymo Driver powers our fully autonomous ride-hailing service and is adaptable across various vehicle platforms and use cases. With over ten million rider-only trips under its belt and extensive experience driving more than 100 million miles on public roads, complemented by extensive simulations across 15+ U.S. states, Waymo is leading the charge in safe and efficient transportation solutions.The Planner Evaluation team addresses a pivotal challenge in autonomous driving: enhancing and quantifying the software that drives our vehicles. We seek seasoned data-driven software engineers and data scientists passionate about autonomous vehicles and utilizing complex data to drive informed decisions. This is the perfect opportunity for someone eager to make a significant impact in the field!In this hybrid role, you will report directly to an Engineering Manager.You will:Develop performance metrics and driving quality signals for the Waymo driver utilizing various techniques, including statistics, mathematics, physics, algorithms, and machine learning.Innovatively use simulations and analyze real-world driving logs to assess driving performance.Design and implement robust methods to strengthen the correlation between changes in onboard software and simulated results.Advocate for code quality and best practices within a large and intricate code base.Analyze data and provide insights for enhancing metric quality and interpretability.Collaborate effectively with engineers, data scientists, statisticians, and leadership to deliver evaluation products and facilitate data-driven decisions.Rapidly validate the effectiveness of additional coverage, ensuring solutions are robust for customer teams to manage their own evaluations.

Join Waymo, a pioneer in autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, our mission is to enhance mobility access and eliminate traffic-related fatalities. The Waymo Driver has already facilitated over ten million rides, showcasing its capability after autonomously navigating over 100 million miles on public roads and trillions in simulations across more than 15 U.S. states.As part of the Release Evaluation team, you will play a key role in ensuring the safety of each Waymo Driver version prior to deployment. We develop automated systems to address rare and exceptional scenarios in autonomous driving, effectively identifying critical signals under constraints of time and resources. The Sampling and Efficiency team utilizes advanced importance sampling techniques and machine learning to enhance the statistical efficiency of our evaluation pipelines.

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, committed to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating 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 access while significantly reducing traffic-related fatalities. Our Waymo Driver powers a fully autonomous ride-hailing service and is adaptable to a diverse array of vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips and experience from more than 100 million miles driven autonomously on public roads, Waymo is shaping the future of transportation.Our simulation environment is among the most sophisticated ever created, utilizing deterministic logic, physical dynamics, and cutting-edge Generative AI to establish a training ground for the Waymo Driver. The Simulator Evaluation team tackles the challenging question: How can we mathematically validate that a virtual world is perceptibly 'real'?We are on the lookout for a Staff Software Engineer who will take on the role of Technical Architect in this field. You will operate at the intersection of software engineering and AI, ensuring our simulated environments—whether governed by explicit rules or foundational models—accurately reflect reality.In this Staff-level position, you will report directly to a Senior Staff Software Engineering Manager and function as a Technical Lead, connecting intricate technical metrics with overarching product strategies.Your Responsibilities Will Include:Architecting Evaluation Standards: Define the 'Definition of Done' for simulation realism, anticipating product objectives (e.g., operational capabilities in snow or highway driving) and designing the evaluation roadmap to ensure our simulation fidelity evolves in alignment with onboard requirements.Acting as the System Critic: Create comprehensive mathematical frameworks to validate our hybrid virtual world, determining the balance between diverse evaluation needs—from verifying logical rules and dynamics to assessing the distribution quality of generative AI models.Building at Scale: Lead the development of large-scale, extensible evaluation platforms (in C++/Python), ensuring our metric pipelines are robust distributed systems capable of delivering clear, reproducible insights on petabytes of data.Providing Strategic, Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the technical liaison across various organizations, closely collaborating with AI research and other simulation teams. The evaluation workflows you design will facilitate rapid innovation and inform research trajectories.