Software Engineer, TaaS Tooling

The Waymo Driver is one of the world's most advanced AI/ML systems. To build it, our engineers need to see what the car sees. The Visualization team builds the central platform and product that powers advanced visual debugging for the entire company. We provide an extensible framework that allows teams across Waymo, from Perception to Planning, to integrate their own specialized visualizations directly into a unified environment.

Our product renders rich, time-synchronized, 4D (3D + time) data from on-vehicle logs, real-time streams, and simulations. It handles massive datasets to provide interactive, high-performance visualizations in the browser. In this role, you will contribute to the product and platform that underpins this ecosystem, enabling domain experts to build and plug in their own components. Your work ensures that thousands of engineers, operators, and researchers have a scalable, performant application to diagnose issues and validate the Waymo Driver.

You will:

• Design and optimize full-stack features for the platform that allow other teams to build custom visualizations within our environment.
• Build performant user interfaces using modern web technologies (TypeScript, Angular, ThreeJS, WebGL) to visualize the internal state of our self-driving system.
• Scale the backend systems and data pipelines, prioritizing reliability and the ability to handle diverse data types from different engineering teams.
• Define and maintain the APIs and developer ergonomics that enable cross-functional partners to contribute features to the shared ecosystem independently.
• Develop features that trace behavior across both onboard vehicle software and offboard analysis pipelines.
• Create shared visualization libraries that standardize how AI/ML outputs are rendered across the company.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional full-stack development experience, including backend (e.g., C++, Java/Kotlin, Go, Python) and frontend (e.g., TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
• Strong experience with modern web application development and frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable, performant, and reliable web applications.
• Experience with data visualization principles and libraries (d3, Plotly.js, Vega).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with diverse engineering teams.

We prefer:

• Experience with 3D graphics technologies and libraries (e.g., WebGL, Three.js).
• Experience architecting plugin systems, extensible platforms, or internal developer tools.
• Experience optimizing web applications for performance, especially when handling large datasets.
• Familiarity with C++ or Go for backend development.
• A strong desire to build tools for debugging complex, distributed systems, particularly those involving AI/ML.
• Passion for autonomous vehicle technology and making complex data accessible.