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
Drive the technical architecture and implementation of core services that: enable evaluation engineers to author, manage, and execute evaluation workflows at scale.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Eval developers, sim and analysis infra: teams to translate ambiguous requirements into clean, well-documented, and easy-to-use API contracts and engineering deliverables.
Ensure the authoring APIs are representative of real-world evaluation: complexity, computationally efficient, and highly reliable.
Mentor junior engineers and champion software development best practices within the team.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focused on backend systems or APIs.
What they're looking for
- Extensive experience building scalable, distributed systems and developer-facing APIs.
- Proven track record of technical contributions, owning large features from design to deployment.
- Expertise in systems design and data modeling for high-throughput, low-latency applications.
- Strong proficiency in C++ or Python.
