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Staff Systems Test Engineer, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems

Waymo· Systems Engineering
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Mountain View, California, San Francisco, California$230k - $284kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Systems Test Engineer focusing on scenario quality, maintenance systems, and scalable testing for Waymo’s simulation-based directed testing coverage. Hybrid on-site role in Mountain View and San Francisco, CA.

Responsibilities

  • Design Scalable Quality Architecture: Move the organization towards scalable QC methodologies for test creation (e.g., statistical sampling, risk-based auditing, and automated validation). Be the primary architect of how we verify work at increased scale
  • Manage meta-quality assurance: Develop and manage our meta-quality framework to drive overall test quality assurance. Build dashboards and identify opportunities to improve first-time accuracy and reduce rework rates
  • Maintain test health: Drive increased automation in detection and resolution of test health issues identified in our vast scenario test database to keep quality / test uptime high
  • Create the playbook: Develop the playbook for making maintenance adjustments at scale by leveraging tooling automation strategically while also partnering w/ SMEs to develop standards and guidelines that enable our vendor workforce to drive efficient resolution

Qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or other relevant technical field
  • 8+ years of experience in Test Engineering, QA Engineering, Software Development in Test, Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Operations or other equivalent experience
  • Excellent debugging and Python/C++ coding skills
  • Proficiency in SQL or other data analysis tools
  • Experience architecting testing programs at scale
  • Experience leading / driving test automation strategies
  • Ability to thrive in a high ambiguity, dynamic environment

Skills

Required:Bachelor’s degree in relevant technical fieldProgrammingData analysisTesting program architectureTest automation leadershipAmbiguity tolerance

Benefits

  • Waymo employees are also 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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