Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field ResponsePosted today$431K

The opportunity

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…

What you'll do

  • Organize and participate in oncall rotations for how to respond to driving issues in the field.

  • Harden software, develop playbooks, improve oncall metrics and: post-mitigation workstreams, and improve robustness of the software system running inside the autonomous vehicle.

  • Lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare or unexpected: events encountered by the fleet in the field.

  • Partner with organization leads and others across the Onboard organization to: improve large-scale software engineering best practices.

  • Contribute to Onboard software architecture to help improve its robustness and debuggability.

  • If needed: request, hire, and manage additional engineers to contribute to the above responsibilities.

What they're looking for

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • + years of experience leading large-scale production software systems, especially machine learned systems
  • + years of experience as an organizational leader, managing a group of people: and partnering with other organizational leaders
  • Experience organizing and running oncall rotations