Senior Software Engineer, Waymo
TaaS Infrastructure
$192-243k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Open for applications
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$192-243k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in general distributed systems and backend development
- Proficient in C++, or a strong willingness to learn
Desirable
- MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in general distributed systems and backend development
- 8+ years of experience programming in C++ and/or with writing robust, efficient code
- Experience in developing low latency, large scale, user facing distributed systems
What the job involves
- The TaaS (Transportation as a Service) and Ride-Hailing Infrastructure team builds mission-critical backend systems, as well as on-vehicle software, that allows Waymo's autonomous vehicles to operate at tremendous commercial scale
- In this role, you will report to our Senior Manager of Commercialization Software
- Design and develop platform and infrastructure that supports various ride hailing businesses
- Provide APIs for both our first-party service and partner services
- Optimizing the marketplace to balance the supply and utilization of Waymo’s autonomous vehicle fleet
- Work with experts in the field of autonomous vehicles
- Implement and scale the backend for Waymo's ride-hailing services. This collection of systems manages trip requests; provides APIs to client apps and partner services; calculates pickup and ride times; matches right vehicles to riders; calculates the price of rides
- Work closely with cross functional partners to design and implement the ride-hailing platform to provide ride-hailing services for various different partners
- Develop expertise in and make use of various Google technologies, like Borg, Spanner, Flume, and custom-built systems for our specific problems
Our take
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.
With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$2.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2020
$750m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $5.5bn
Company values
- Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
- Safety is our foundation
- We pioneer
- Act with thoughtful urgency
- Respect each other
- Be responsible owners
- We’re stronger together
- Optionality creates opportunities
- Always be learning
- Celebrate progress
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Dmitri Dolgov
(Co-CEO, not founder)Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.
Tekedra N. Mawakana
(Co-CEO, not founder)Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.
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