Backend Software Engineer, Waymo

Pickups and Dropoffs

$170-216k

+ Eligible for discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Python

Java

C++

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous driving technology

Posted today

Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Posted today

$170-216k

+ Eligible for discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

Python

Java

C++

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
3+ years of software development experience
Experience with C++, Python, or Java

Desirable

Passion and experience building user-facing products
Distributed systems experience
Experience with ML Systems, training, and evaluation

What the job involves

We are building a team of engineers dedicated to further developing our Pick Ups and Drop Offs (PUDO) experience
Our team works on the user interfaces used by customers to hail and control our autonomous vehicles
We build complex user experiences, phone-to-vehicle communications, and solve novel human-computer interaction problems in the AV space
In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager
Work on the software associated with the interaction between riders and the AV at pickups and dropoffs
Work on backend services to control the car features before and during a ride
Inspire trust in the self-driving systems
Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineers on the PUDO team, as well as product managers, designers, researchers, vehicle engineers, AI experts, and fleet operations to build cohesive, user-centered solutions

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2024

$5.6bn

SERIES C

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $11.1bn

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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