Summary
About this role
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.
Step into a role where your Android and Web expertise will be the operational foundation for the world's leading autonomous fleet.
The Depot UX team is seeking a visionary engineer to build the tools that empower our enterprise partners to manage, maintain, and scale our vehicles globally. This is your chance to architect the operational future of autonomous transportation, directly impacting Waymo’s expansion.
In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.
You will:
- Build Android systems critical to Waymo's success, such as:
- The application used by enterprise partners to manage their fleets of autonomous vehicles
- Foundational libraries, including scalable UI components, architecture & performance
- Solve hard, real-world problems, such as:
- Improve human task completion by depot operators; encapsulate the complexity of autonomous fleet management and make it accessible to partners
- Identify and create infrastructure to enhance app scalability and developer productivity
- Collaborate with team members such as product managers, designers, fleet operations, and UX researchers
- Join the team owning a couple of tools used by enterprise partners: Android applications and web app application
You have:
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of experience building UX designs on the Android platform
- Experience working on medium to large-scale Android apps involving multiple developers and designers
- Experience with Kotlin, Java, Android applications and UIs
We prefer:
- Passion and experience building user-facing products
- Work with product designers and building pixel-perfect UI
- Familiarity with Server Driven UI (SDUI)
- Experience or openness towards learning mobile fullstack development - our team owns frontend part (Android or web-app in Angular) and “mobile backend for frontend” part (written in Kotlin)
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Other facts
About Waymo
On the journey to be the world's most trusted driver. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve mobility while saving thousands of lives. Download the Waymo One app and ride today.
Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.
What you'll do
- You will build Android systems critical to Waymo's success, including applications for managing autonomous vehicle fleets. Additionally, you will collaborate with various team members to enhance app scalability and improve user experience.
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