{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8762ccb8c4e6069ea9240b6d","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8762ccb8c4e6069ea9240b6d","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8762ccb8c4e6069ea9240b6d","title":"Senior Software Engineer, Perception Future Sensing Platforms","description":"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 Driver - 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.\r\nThe Perception team at Waymo builds technology that powers the Waymo Driver. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We conduct research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling software engineers like you to develop multi-modal models and techniques at scale.\r\nOur mission is to build a stable foundation for a high-level Perception pipeline and the overall self-driving system. We act as the crucial interface between Waymo's hardware teams and the rest of the self-driving engineering organization, defining sensor requirements, providing critical feedback to hardware teams, and abstracting away system complexities.\r\nThe Multi-Platform Team's purpose is to abstract away superfluous differences between various sensor hardware and encapsulate hardware-specific logic so that downstream Perception is as portable as possible. Our work allows a single parameterized Perception software stack to run on all sensor hardware platforms, to remain easily maintainable across N platforms with much less than N times the effort, and to rapidly adapt to new platforms. We bring up the overall Perception software stack on new sensor and vehicle platforms.\r\nThis role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Technical Lead Manager.\r\nYou will: Work with a creative team of people who are responsible for the bring-up of Perception SW on new hardware platforms (vehicles, sensors, compute).\r\nEvolve existing SW to abstract away superfluous differences between various sensor hardware and encapsulate hardware-specific logic, by writing design docs, gathering feedback, implementing the change and testing it and monitoring its continued health and maintaining it during its lifespan.\r\nRapidly prototype and run de-risking experiments for the next-generation Perception SW stack that is designed to be more portable to the new sensor HW.\r\nMaintain and run evaluations of existing or hypothetical new sensor hardware to help make decisions on sensor HW options. Write up analyses that summarize high-level recommendations using the evidence from these evaluations.\r\nYou have: BS in Computer Science, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.\r\nStrong experience programming in C++ with robust and efficient code\r\nStrong software architecture skills\r\nExperience with sensor data processing (Lidar, camera, or Radar)\r\nExperience with building, integrating, debugging and evaluating ML-based systems\r\nWe prefer: MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience\r\nExperience with autonomous vehicles (L4) or ADAS systems (L2/L3)\r\nExperience with bring-up of new sensors or vehicle platforms\r\nThe expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.\r\nWaymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.\r\nSalary Range\r\n$213,000-$263,000 USD#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Waymo","rawCompany":"waymo","city":"Mountain View","state":"WY","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-21T01:20:04.151Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.08","title":"Robotics Engineers","slug":"robotics-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Software Engineer, Perception Future Sensing Platforms","description":"Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. 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We bring up the overall Perception software stack on new sensor and vehicle platforms.\r\nThis role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Technical Lead Manager.\r\nYou will: Work with a creative team of people who are responsible for the bring-up of Perception SW on new hardware platforms (vehicles, sensors, compute).\r\nEvolve existing SW to abstract away superfluous differences between various sensor hardware and encapsulate hardware-specific logic, by writing design docs, gathering feedback, implementing the change and testing it and monitoring its continued health and maintaining it during its lifespan.\r\nRapidly prototype and run de-risking experiments for the next-generation Perception SW stack that is designed to be more portable to the new sensor HW.\r\nMaintain and run evaluations of existing or hypothetical new sensor hardware to help make decisions on sensor HW options. Write up analyses that summarize high-level recommendations using the evidence from these evaluations.\r\nYou have: BS in Computer Science, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.\r\nStrong experience programming in C++ with robust and efficient code\r\nStrong software architecture skills\r\nExperience with sensor data processing (Lidar, camera, or Radar)\r\nExperience with building, integrating, debugging and evaluating ML-based systems\r\nWe prefer: MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience\r\nExperience with autonomous vehicles (L4) or ADAS systems (L2/L3)\r\nExperience with bring-up of new sensors or vehicle platforms\r\nThe expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. 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