Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.
Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you’re a software engineer or researcher who’s curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you.
In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Engineering Manager
You will:
- Manage a team to deliver tooling to facilitate human triage of numerous driving events
- Build quarterly and annual technical roadmaps that meet product requirements and manage work on the team towards those goals.
- Collaborate across departments and align execution to meet product goals
- Partner with technical leads, product managers and program managers to lead execution on broad efforts
- Lead proactive risk management efforts and contingency plans across the program landscape to deliver on the program
- Set up and sustain mechanisms that promote organizational efficiencies, and improve speed of decision-making and execution
You have:
- 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams of 5-15 people, delivering on both short-term goals and long-term strategic projects.
- Strong technical acumen with the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with engineering leads, evaluating technical trade-offs and their impact on project scope, risks, and timelines.
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and deploying internal tools that improve engineering efficiency or productivity.
- Proficiency in full-stack Web development, comfortable with both front-end and back-end
- Proven ability to manage and mentor engineers, including conducting performance reviews, encouraging career development, and facilitating collaboration.
- BS in Computer Science or related field
We prefer:
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science or a related field and 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Familiarity with human-computer interaction (HCI) principles and experience with crowdsourcing platforms or human-in-the-loop systems
- Proficiency in C++
- Proficiency in TypeScript
- Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams
Top Skills
What We Do
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives.
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.
