Staff Software Engineer, Waymo
Route Optimization
$226-286k
Plus annual bonus and equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Job no longer available
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$226-286k
Plus annual bonus and 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
- Hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems for product backends
- Proficient in C++ or Python (or a strong willingness to learn)
- Demonstrated experience working cross functionally with Product, Program, Data Science etc
- 8+ years of industry experience building highly performant systems
- 2+ years of experience in a Technical Lead role
Desirable
- Experience in building Ride-Hailing related backend services: e.g, mapping, routing, localization, vehicle dispatching, and/or rider matching
- 10+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer/Technical Expert
What the job involves
- Solving cutting-edge challenges in the joint space of autonomous vehicles and ride-hailing commercialization
- Leading technical areas in vehicle routing, passenger destination suggestions, vehicle dispatch optimization, and ETA prediction
- Designing, implementing, and scaling the backend Infrastructure for Waymo's ride-hailing services to handle passenger interactions, communications with hailing and routing services, and distributed protocols for reliable operation of our vehicles in a commercial service
- Develop expertise in and make use of various Google technologies, like Borg, Spanner, Flume, and custom-built systems for our specific problems
- Work with experts in the field of autonomous vehicles
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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.
Insights
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
Founders
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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