Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Planner Selection
Waymo - Mountain View, California, USA
Posted Aug 20, 2025
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Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Planner Selection Mountain View, California, USA Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driverâ„¢-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Waymo Strategic Selection team is responsible for the critical, real-time decision-making systems that guide the Waymo Driver through complex urban environments. Operating on a horizon of approximately 60 seconds into the future, this team bridges the gap between high-level routing and immediate tactical maneuvers, ensuring safe, comfortable, and efficient trajectories. In this role, you will focus on developing generalized ML models capable of handling a wider range of complex driving situations. In this role, you will report into a TLM of Planner Technology. You will: - Investigate driving behavior issues from logs and understand the root cause - Improve performance of the state of the art ML models in Planner - Develop foundational frameworks that help advancement of the Waymo Driver's capabilities. - Expand the impact of
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