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.
Waymo's core business scale is bottlenecked by improving long tail behaviors. The growth in vehicles, platforms, geos (e.g. international), and ODD (e.g. weather) creates a huge set of new problems that we have to solve quickly. The methodical process of building driving sets and high quality metrics cannot scale to Waymo's upcoming needs. We are looking for a senior IC to redefine the way we hillclimb and build eval to scale the Waymo driver.
In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Director.
You will:
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems to solve complex, open-ended evaluation challenges.
- Develop robust, automated evaluation frameworks and objective metrics to continuously measure the accuracy, safety, and reliability of non-deterministic AI agents.
- Automate the building and scaling of the hardest eval problem inhibiting Waymo's scale.
You have:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven technical leader with a track record of designing, building, evaluating, and deploying novel agent-based AI solutions into production
- Deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with heavy, hands-on experience building autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration systems, and integrating LLMs with external tools/APIs.
- Extensive experience (typically 7+ years) in software engineering, with a significant focus on architecting and building large-scale, complex systems.
- Proven ability to define technical strategy, influence senior leadership, and drive execution across multiple teams in ambiguous and rapidly evolving domains.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
We prefer:
- PhD in Computer Science or a related field, with a specialization in AI/ML or a related area.
- Experience with agentic frameworks, knowledge graphs, and reasoning engines.
Proficiency in C++ and experience with building production-grade services. - Familiarity with autonomous vehicle simulation, testing, or evaluation domains.
- Familiarity with Google's or Waymo's internal AI/ML platforms and infrastructure.
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 related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven technical leader with track record designing, building, evaluating, and deploying agent-based AI solutions into production.
- Deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with hands-on experience building autonomous agents.
- Experience building multi-agent orchestration systems and integrating LLMs with external tools/APIs.
- Extensive software engineering experience (typically 7+ years) focusing on architecting and building large-scale, complex systems.
- Proven ability to define technical strategy, influence senior leadership, and drive cross-team execution.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- PhD in Computer Science or related field with AI/ML specialization.
- Experience with agentic frameworks, knowledge graphs, and reasoning engines.
- Proficiency in C++ and experience building production-grade services.
- Familiarity with autonomous vehicle simulation, testing, or evaluation domains.
- Familiarity with Google's or Waymo's internal AI/ML platforms and infrastructure.
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.
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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.
