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.
Want to build the next generation of infrastructure for driverless cars?
Join our Waymo Commercialization team, and help us design the future of transportation! We are looking for a passionate Senior SWE who wants to help build the systems that improve Waymo's core ride hailing and fleet management systems.
You are someone who and product-minded. You will work on cross-cutting problems to require cross-team collaboration, both technically (mobile app, cloud backends, and the Waymo Driver) and functionally (operations, product, legal, partnerships, policy & privacy) to develop and deliver business critical infrastructure.
In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Director.
You will:
- Help build and evolve one or more mission-critical commercialization tools and systems
- Solve hard, real-world problems such as demand planning, pickup / dropoff optimization, fleet optimization, field escalation handling, and more
- Hire and manage a team of engineers
- Collaborate with US peers to work on the next generation of AI-driven UI for an internal simulation tool
- Building a full-stack product using Alphabet tech stack
- Improve / monitor the performance, scalability and the reliability of the simulator
You have:
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development
- Hands-on experience building a popular (internal or external-facing) product
- Strong experience of technical leadership and communication skills
- Strong development proficiency in C++, Python, or Angular
We prefer:
- You have experience working in a distributed organization with US teams
- Previous management experience
- Strong experience working on backend or full stack products, and is willing to expand to both
- Experience developing products that use LLM
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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 help build and evolve mission-critical commercialization tools and systems while solving real-world problems such as demand planning and fleet optimization. Additionally, you will collaborate with peers to develop an AI-driven UI for an internal simulation tool.
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