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Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response

Waymo· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, California$349k - $431kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare, or unexpected events encountered by the Waymo Driver fleet in the field, contributing to Onboard software architecture and robustness, with a hybrid work schedule and leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare or unexpected events encountered by the fleet in the field.
  • Contribute to Onboard software architecture to help improve its robustness and debuggability.
  • Harden software, develop playbooks, improve oncall metrics and post-mitigation workstreams, and improve robustness of the software system running inside the autonomous vehicle.
  • Partner with organization leads and others across the Onboard organization to improve large-scale software engineering best practices.
  • Organize and participate in oncall rotations for how to respond to driving issues in the field.
  • If needed: request, hire, and manage additional engineers to contribute to the above responsibilities.

Qualifications

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 10+ years of experience leading large-scale production software systems, especially machine learned systems
  • 5+ years of experience as an organizational leader, managing a group of people and partnering with other organizational leaders
  • Excellent influence without authority skills
  • Experience organizing and running oncall rotations
  • Organizational awareness, extremely collaborative, strong communication, focus on value add to the company and to the team

Skills

Required:Mastery in leading large-scale production software systemsOrganizational leadership

Benefits

  • Waymo employees are eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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