Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's 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’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
The Marketplace team builds the core decision systems that keep Waymo running smoothly. They design the algorithms that match riders to vehicles, optimize routing, balance supply and demand, forecast rider demand, and power dynamic pricing. Their work ensures the fleet stays efficient, riders get fast pickups, and the AV network operates safely and profitably across cities.
Our team functions as the core intelligence for the Waymo platform, designing and implementing the sophisticated algorithms for rider vehicle matching, dynamic pricing, efficient routing, and predictive supply demand balancing. Their work ensures riders are connected with the optimal Waymo vehicle efficiently, safely, and with minimized wait times.
You will:
- Lead a growing team of 5-6 junior and senior engineers to implement and scale Waymo’s Marketplace Platform and Infrastructure
- Developing ML infrastructure for automatically training and deploying sophisticated optimization and prediction ML models to make real-time decisions for pricing, matching, and positioning.
- Developing experimentation, monitoring and analysis infrastructure for analyzing ongoing deployed models.
- Developing simulation infrastructure for all marketplace optimization and ML model development and evaluation
You have:
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of experience programming in backend coding languages
- 2+ years of people management experience
- Technical leader experience
- 3+ years of experience building productionized ML models
We prefer:
- Experience in C++
- MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).
- Prior experience building and deploying various ML models such as reinforcement learning
The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of experience programming in backend coding languages
- 2+ years of people management experience
- Technical leadership experience
- 3+ years of experience building productionized machine learning models
- Experience in C++
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience with machine learning design and infrastructure, including deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, or fine-tuning
- Experience building and deploying machine learning models such as reinforcement learning models
Waymo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Waymo and has not been reviewed or approved by Waymo.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered strong for full‑time technical roles, aligning with top‑tier AV/Big Tech benchmarks. Employer materials also emphasize competitive pay with eligibility for bonuses and equity as part of total rewards.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage spans medical, dental, vision, mental‑health resources, onsite wellness centers, and counseling, with specialized programs such as menopause and transgender medical advocacy. Dependents are included, indicating depth across core health needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Offerings include fertility and family‑forming assistance, parental and baby‑bonding leave, caregiver and elder‑care support, and backup childcare. These programs are positioned to support families through multiple life stages.
Waymo Insights
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.
