Job Description
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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