Senior Software Engineer

Waymo • Mountain View, CA

9h • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
• 5+ years of industry experience navigating complex systems with distributed ownership
• Experience with C++ or related structured programming language
• A curious, investigative mindset with a bias towards action
• Strong ability to dive into new problems and codebases
• Experience working with non-technical cross-functional partners

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing analytical frameworks to answer difficult product questions
• An innate desire to make things better and reject the status quo

Responsibilities

• Design and implement measures to increase the efficiency and decrease the cost of Fleet Response operations
• Partner with other teams at Waymo to find headroom in their shares of operational workload
• Generate and research ideas for new optimizations of the work operators perform
• Work with onboard engineering teams to sunset operational work that is no longer necessary
• Contribute to cross-functional analysis and optimization efforts
• Improve regression-detection and culprit-finding for changes that negatively impact operational metrics

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior