Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p>Want to build the next generation of infrastructure for driverless cars?</p>
<p>Join our Waymo Driver Validation team, and help us design the future of transportation! We are looking for a passionate Software Engineer who wants to help build the systems that improve Waymo's core ride hailing and fleet management systems.</p>
<p>You are someone who is product-minded. 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.</p>
<p>In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.</p>
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<p><strong>You will:</strong></p>
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<li>Help build and evolve mission-critical horizontal infrastructure and tooling that underpins all commercialization systems</li>
<li>Collaborate with other engineering teams to develop systems and processes as business needs grow and evolve</li>
<li>Help scale our systems to meet the demands of commercial expansion and growing complexity</li>
<li>Solve hard, real-world problems such as world simulation for regression testing and evaluation of software services managing fleets for autonomous vehicles</li>
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<p><strong>You have:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience</li>
<li>4+ years of backend or infrastructure experience</li>
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<p><strong>We prefer:</strong></p>
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<li>Experience with C++ (or a Willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge)</li>
<li>Experience working in environments including nontechnical team members</li>
<li>Experience with operations tooling, developer productivity, or developer tools</li>
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