Systems Engineer, Perception

We're looking for talented teammates who'll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Staff Systems Engineer.

- Use your knowledge of perception systems combined with Waymo's safety and business targets to propose requirements based on statistical, risk based arguments.

- Lead the qualification of perception software systems that are a key part of Waymo's driverless software release.

- Drive consensus on those requirements within the software and hardware teams.

- Develop reusable, high-quality analysis and evaluation tools based on simulation and fleet data.

- Use these and existing tools to design, debug, and execute tests.

- Communicate recommendations and results of your analysis in technical reports and presentations to peers and leadership

- An advanced degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering or other relevant technical field OR 4 years of practical experience involving perception or robotic systems

- Experience in software engineering for simulation and data evaluation, using Python or other high level language (e.g. SQL, R, C++)

- Comfortable juggling multiple projects at once and thriving in ambiguity

- Experience managing projects with multiple contributors and stakeholders

- Experience with Systems Engineering fundamentals, including requirements definition and verification and validation techniques.

- Experience with perception systems for robotics or autonomy, including work with lidar, camera, and/or radar sensor data

- Experience with developing and/or testing machine learning/computer vision/AI systems.