Jobs at Waymo

Staff Systems Engineer responsible for analyzing driving behavior data, developing system evaluation metrics, defining verification requirements, identifying risks, and architecting high-impact systems engineering projects. The role coordinates cross-functional collaboration, improves system reliability and efficiency, and supports safety-critical autonomous driving systems through statistical analysis, technical documentation, and stakeholder alignment.

Lead signal and power integrity engineering across product and subsystem development. Responsibilities include SIPI planning, stack-up specifications, PCB and interface layout audits, simulation, design sign-off, lab measurement correlation, model enhancement, and debugging. The role also researches advanced SI/PI technologies and collaborates with cross-functional teams to resolve hardware integrity challenges.

Leads cross-organizational technical programs for Waymo’s new product initiatives from concept through launch and scaled operations. Owns program structures, work breakdowns, schedules, dependencies, readiness frameworks, resource planning, and risk management. Partners with Product, Engineering, Hardware, Safety, Legal, Operations, and OEM teams while guiding other TPMs. Requires technical judgment across autonomous vehicle hardware, embedded software, cloud platforms, safety-critical systems, and physical operations.

PhD intern developing controllable generative world models and interactive simulations for autonomous driving. Responsibilities include implementing multimodal conditioning, diffusion and flow-matching steering, representation alignment, realism critics, and closed-loop scenario generation. The role requires writing scalable, tested JAX code and training models on large TPU clusters while collaborating with simulation and foundation-model research teams.

Develops and owns vehicle security requirements, network and module security architecture, secure software interfaces, and security-related features such as Digital Key and SOTA. Creates and executes verification and validation plans, analyzes test results, resolves platform security defects, and manages software and feature delivery to prototype vehicle fleets. The role collaborates with OEMs and systems engineering teams and requires expertise in automotive communication protocols, embedded systems, and security mechanisms.

Partner with People Business Partners to resolve systemic employee issues, enable performance and compensation programs, coach managers through complex people challenges, handle sensitive HR escalations, and provide culture and sentiment insights to senior leaders. The role requires strong HR operations, employee relations, performance management, analytical, and relationship-building capabilities in a hybrid environment.

Graduate interns will develop scalable simulation data pipelines for Waymo’s virtual driver’s test, evaluating autonomous driving capabilities. They will improve code health and developer experience using software engineering best practices while collaborating with autonomous driving teams. Required qualifications include a current master’s or PhD program, C/C++ proficiency, strong communication skills, and enthusiasm for autonomous driving. SQL, Python, distributed systems, and AI-assisted development experience are preferred.

Leads strategic procurement and category management for SaaS, on-premises software, hardware, telecom, and IT services. Manages renewals, sourcing strategies, vendor relationships, VARs, contracts, SOWs, cost optimization, and compliance. Partners with IT, Security, Engineering, Finance, Legal, and executive stakeholders on negotiations, make-versus-buy decisions, total-cost analysis, and technology requirements. The role manages complex, high-volume sourcing activities in a fast-growth environment.

Lead the design and operation of scalable machine learning infrastructure, including data generation, distributed training, production serving, evaluation consistency, accelerator optimization, reliability, and observability. Set technical direction, guide architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate across modeling, evaluation, and platform teams. Build systems supporting autonomous driving models, simulation data, and large-scale production inference.

Advise Waymo business, product, and technical teams on U.S. and international trade, export controls, sanctions, supply-chain regulations, equipment certifications, connected-vehicle compliance, country-of-origin tracing, and forced-labor diligence. Manage investigations, audits, regulatory engagement, compliance programs, and strategies addressing evolving global regulations. Partner with policy, engineering, supply-chain, product, and leadership teams in a fast-paced autonomous-driving environment.

Own PCB and PCBA quality and reliability for autonomous vehicle compute and sensor modules. Lead validation planning, laboratory and supplier coordination, manufacturing quality investigations, CAPA, root-cause analysis, DFMEA risk mitigation, and reliability system improvements. Apply expertise in electronic packaging failure mechanisms, SMT and PCB manufacturing, IPC standards, electrical schematics, thermal solutions, and finite element modeling. Support APQP/PPAP, PCB layout, test fixture design, and electrical debugging.

Summer intern developing low-latency C++ and SQL telemetry pipelines, responsive operational dashboards, and reliable testing infrastructure for autonomous vehicle depot operations. The role involves collaborating with triage engineers and operations staff to gather requirements, improve situational awareness, and deliver maintainable full-stack software through integration testing and code reviews.

Lead the architecture and technical strategy for high-fidelity machine learning perception models powering autonomous vehicle simulation ground truth. Build scalable foundation-model systems, optimize inference across petabyte-scale datasets, define quality and coverage roadmaps, align cross-functional stakeholders, and mentor perception engineers. The role requires deep expertise in computer vision, 3D perception, multimodal models, ML infrastructure, and production-scale inference.

Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and diagnostics infrastructure development for autonomous and base vehicle systems. Collaborate across hardware, software, and operations teams to resolve fleet issues, identify diagnostic gaps, guide subsystem diagnostics improvements, and shape overall diagnostics strategy. The role requires automotive or related systems experience, coding familiarity, and technical leadership across deployed hardware and software systems.

Leads industrialization and supplier manufacturing launches for autonomous vehicle sensors and ECUs. Oversees automated assembly-line deployment, process engineering, quality tools, supplier performance, equipment qualification, PPAP, and start of production. Manages technical contracts, capital equipment, schedules, risks, and cross-functional issue resolution. Drives continuous improvement in yield, cycle time, and product quality while coordinating internal engineering, quality, procurement, legal, and external manufacturing partners.

Build and deploy machine learning models for Waymo’s marketplace, including conversion, wait-time, retention, demand forecasting, pricing, matching, and vehicle positioning models. Apply reinforcement learning, design and evaluate experiments, collaborate with Engineering and Product, and present data-driven recommendations to leadership.

Leads Waymo’s enterprise learning, leadership development, organizational capability, and culture strategy. The role establishes scalable learning roadmaps, leadership pipelines, onboarding, skills architecture, measurement practices, ERG support, and governance. It partners with senior leaders and People teams, manages vendors and learning technology, builds an inclusive learning culture, develops high-performing teams, and aligns talent initiatives with business objectives in a fast-growing technology environment.

Research and implement machine learning perception solutions for autonomous driving in weather and degraded-road conditions. Develop models for data-scarce scenarios, evaluate ML systems, and collaborate with onboard software, planning, and control teams. The role involves implementing algorithms from academic papers and potentially working with computer vision, computational geometry, real-time robotics, and vision-language models.

Lead real-time incident response as Incident Commander for high-severity, cross-functional disruptions. Coordinate Engineering, Operations, Legal, Safety, Policy, and Communications stakeholders; make rapid system-level decisions; support 24/7 global coverage; brief executives; and drive incident retrospectives, root-cause analysis, documentation, and remediation follow-through.

Lead efficiency efforts across Waymo’s Simulator software stack, establishing architecture improvements, performance frameworks, and multi-quarter technical roadmaps. Optimize simulation throughput, latency, and resource utilization across CPU, GPU, and TPU infrastructure. Partner with evaluation and infrastructure teams to resolve performance bottlenecks, develop large-scale evaluation and debugging processes, and guide cross-functional engineering initiatives.