
Staff Software Engineer, Chassis
Quick Summary
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 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.
Join our Waymo Commercialization team, and help us design the future of transportation! We are looking for a passionate Staff SWE who wants to help build the systems that improve Waymo's core ride hailing and fleet management systems.
You will work on cross-cutting problems to require cross-team collaboration, both technically (mobile app, cloud backends, and the Waymo Driver) and functionally (operations, product, legal, partnerships, policy & privacy) to develop and deliver business critical infrastructure.
In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.
- Help build and evolve mission-critical horizontal infrastructure and tooling that underpins all commercialization systems
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to develop systems and processes as business needs grow and evolve
- Scale our systems to meet the demands of commercial expansion and growing complexity
- Solve hard, real-world problems such as world simulation for regression testing and evaluation of software services managing fleets for autonomous vehicles
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of backend or infrastructure experience
- Experience with C++ (or a willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge)
- Experience working in environments including nontechnical team members
- Experience with operations tooling, developer productivity, or developer tools
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Listing Details
- Posted
- April 9, 2026
- First seen
- March 23, 2026
- Last seen
- April 9, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 16
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 74%
- Scored at
- April 9, 2026
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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make transportation safe and accessible through self-driving solutions.
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