Staff Software Engineer, Waymo

Route Optimization

$226-286k

Plus annual bonus and equity

C++

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous driving technology

Job no longer available

Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Job no longer available

$226-286k

Plus annual bonus and equity

C++

Expert 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

Hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems for product backends
Proficient in C++ or Python (or a strong willingness to learn)
Demonstrated experience working cross functionally with Product, Program, Data Science etc
8+ years of industry experience building highly performant systems
2+ years of experience in a Technical Lead role

Desirable

Experience in building Ride-Hailing related backend services: e.g, mapping, routing, localization, vehicle dispatching, and/or rider matching
10+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer/Technical Expert

What the job involves

Solving cutting-edge challenges in the joint space of autonomous vehicles and ride-hailing commercialization
Leading technical areas in vehicle routing, passenger destination suggestions, vehicle dispatch optimization, and ETA prediction
Designing, implementing, and scaling the backend Infrastructure for Waymo's ride-hailing services to handle passenger interactions, communications with hailing and routing services, and distributed protocols for reliable operation of our vehicles in a commercial service
Develop expertise in and make use of various Google technologies, like Borg, Spanner, Flume, and custom-built systems for our specific problems
Work with experts in the field of autonomous vehicles

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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