Sr. Staff Systems Engineer, Perception-Planner Risk

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Define the approach for quantitative safety risk analysis across sensing and perception systems engineering, building on top of Waymo-wide risk assessment and management methodologies.
• Apply the defined approach for selected events that occur rarely or have scarce operational data. The generalized goal is to assess behavioral safety risk across a wide variety of situations like interacting with…
• Develop and prototype novel workflows to:
• Analyze to determine the required performance levels of various sensing and perception tasks
• Support trade studies to inform architectural decisions for perception hardware or software
• Estimate exposure of events relevant to perception-driven behavioral risk
• Improve quantitative rigor, standardization, efficiency of execution, and reporting of end-to-end risk from V&V test outcomes in complex contexts.
• Expand existing methodologies that are crucial for breaking into new operational design domains and addressing emergent challenges

Job requirements

• Bachelors or higher degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of engineering experience with demonstrated delivery of high-stakes technical roadmaps that successfully resolved architectural friction and deployed business-critical systems
• Experience using AI productivity tools for analysis and workflow development
• Proficiency and experience in:
• Vehicular robotics (development or evaluation)
• Software development (Python or C++)
• Statistical or predictive modeling
• Experimental design and developing metrics for quantitative methods