Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response

Highlights

• Lead engineering response to novel fleet events to improve the Waymo Driver.
• Harden onboard software powering perception, decisions, and rider trips at scale.
• Evolve driver robustness for millions of weekly miles across 15+ states.

What they offer

• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Equity incentive plan
• Generous Company benefits program

Ideal candidate

A collaborative software engineering leader who thrives on first-of-a-kind, real-world problems at scale. You are hands-on, decisive under uncertainty, and passionate about improving autonomous driving safety in the field.

Requirements

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• 10+ years leading large-scale production software systems, especially ML systems
• 5+ years as organizational leader managing people and partnering across orgs
• Excellent influence-without-authority skills
• Experience organizing and running oncall rotations
• Highly collaborative with strong communication and organizational awareness
• Experience leading hybrid hardware/software production systems (preferred)
• Experience leading teams on modern deep ML / large-scale models (preferred)
• Track record of change in 1000+ person engineering organizations (preferred)