Waymo - Industry Experience - Winter 2017- Spring 2021

Camera Testing + Manufacturing

My work on Waymo’s camera team ranged from design of experiments, designing test system architecture, to collaborating with overseas manufacturing equipment vendors. I established standard test methodologies for image quality assessment, and helped to bring up a first-of-its-kind local manufacturing line. 

Tools/Skills: Test engineering and automation, Python scripting, data analysis, image quality analysis

On-car camera field of view, Source: Waymo Blog
Long-range camera POV, Source: Waymo Blog


Software Simulation

In my first role at Waymo, I gained system-level knowledge of the autonomous vehicle’s “brain”. I modeled interactions with other cars, traffic lights, pedestrians, and objects in simulation. This work also required designing metrics to check for software regressions in different modules over time.  

Tools/Skills: Test engineering, data analysis


Simulation environment using busy street data, Source: Waymo Blog



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