Jobs at Waymo

Staff Software Quality Safety Operations Specialist at Waymo. This role is responsible for ensuring the safety, reliability, and quality of the Waymo Driver through adaptable and scalable operations, increasingly powered by AI. The specialist will contribute to de-risking new deployments and driving engineering velocity by evaluating performance and curating datasets.

Program Manager, Regulatory Reporting at Waymo. This role is responsible for the scaled delivery of datasets and methodologies used to evaluate events of regulatory interest and ensure reporting accuracy as Waymo expands. The role supports de-risking new deployments and enabling international market expansion.

Waymo is seeking an Event Response Global Service Delivery Lead in Tempe, AZ. This hybrid role reports to the Head of Event Response and is responsible for maintaining and executing vendor strategy, providing vendors with necessary resources, and developing programs for smooth interactions and collaboration with vendors and stakeholders.

Waymo is hiring an Emergency Services Liaison in Munich, Germany. This hybrid role reports to the Head of Enterprise Resilience and focuses on building trust and collaboration with German emergency services. The liaison will recruit and train Emergency Services Ambassadors and implement a German Emergency Services Familiarization Program.

Waymo is seeking a 2027 Summer Intern for MBA Operations Planning. The intern will design strategic frameworks, collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve scaling and growth, and enhance planning processes.

Waymo is seeking an Engineering & Hardware Category Manager to lead the Enterprise Outsourcing & Services vertical within their Procurement and Vendor Enablement Office. This senior role involves developing procurement strategies for engineering services and R&D hardware, managing outsourced engineering contracts, and negotiating complex agreements for hardware development.

Waymo is seeking an MS/PhD intern for their Perception team in Mountain View, California. The intern will design and implement multi-modality perception models for self-driving cars, focusing on areas like 3D object detection and tracking.

Administrative Business Partner at Waymo in Mountain View, California. This hybrid role involves executing administrative functions like travel and calendar management, problem-solving, collaborating with executives and cross-functional teams, and leading projects or events.

Machine Learning Engineer at Waymo focused on prediction and planning for autonomous vehicles. This role involves developing next-generation ML systems, framing real-world challenges as ML problems, and applying cutting-edge techniques like foundation models and reinforcement learning. The engineer will collaborate with researchers and product owners to create safe and efficient planning behaviors for autonomous driving.

Waymo is seeking an MS/PhD intern for Road Understanding and ML Engineering for Summer 2027 in Mountain View, California. The intern will design and build machine learning models for lane geometry detection and relational topology decoding, run experiments and training pipelines using various sensor modalities and map priors, and benchmark performance.

Senior Actuary at Waymo, reporting to the Head of Risk and Insurance. This role involves driving end-to-end actuarial analyses, advancing pricing and reserving models for commercial auto, and championing automation and AI tooling for actuarial workflows.

Waymo is hiring a 2027 Summer Intern for their Data Science team. This role involves analyzing large-scale on-road and simulation data to build metrics, statistical models, and predictive features for the Waymo Driver's safety and driving quality. Interns will work with various Data Science subteams, including World Model Eval, Safety Eval Tech, Data Science Safety, Driving Quality Data Science, and Simulation Data Science.

Product Manager, Growth at Waymo responsible for building products, features, and infrastructure to drive trip growth. This role involves partnering with data science, marketing, and operations to improve workflows, tooling, velocity, experimentation, and measurement, while solving rider growth challenges related to CAC and incentives.

Waymo is hiring a Senior Program Manager for Regulatory affairs in Germany. This role involves leading and driving permitting programs across Regulatory, Legal, and Policy spaces, working cross-functionally with various teams to manage timelines, risks, and dependencies. The individual will proactively identify and mitigate business-critical blockers, including compliance and regulatory challenges, and keep stakeholders informed and aligned.

The Knowledge and Support Readiness Manager at Waymo will be responsible for managing the knowledge and training team, identifying curriculum gaps, and shaping new learning initiatives. This role involves analyzing agent proficiency data and training metrics to measure program impact and drive targeted action plans, ultimately owning the adoption of training materials to improve agent time-to-proficiency.

Waymo is seeking a Privacy Counsel for their operations in Germany and the EU. This role will advise on GDPR, ePrivacy, and local laws, focusing on "Privacy by Design" and data minimization for European market entry. The counsel will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and AI/ML teams on privacy solutions for sensor data and model training, and build relationships with EU Data Protection Authorities.

Waymo is hiring a Safety Engineer focused on Risk Management in Mountain View, California, or San Francisco, California. This hybrid role involves architecting risk assessment methodologies, partnering with domain experts to build robust risk assessments, defining test coverage and field monitoring, and identifying and unblocking stakeholders to scale processes.

Principal Software Engineer, Post Training at Waymo. This role focuses on developing and leading a strategy for a next-generation post-training system for the Waymo Driver, influencing the development of large-scale models and advancing their impact within the onboard software system.

Waymo is seeking a Legal Counsel for their UK operations. This hybrid role involves providing a full range of legal services for Waymo's UK market entry and ongoing operations, including advising on negotiations, advocacy, and dispute resolution. The counsel will also offer strategic legal guidance on business, corporate strategy, and governance issues relevant to the UK.

Waymo is seeking a Vehicle Product Engineer to join their Hardware Engineering team in Mountain View, California. This role involves leading quality planning activities like APQP and PPAP, ensuring product design processes meet quality standards, and collaborating with OEMs and cross-functional teams to improve product quality.

Senior Data Science Manager at Waymo focused on Driving Quality. This role involves leading a team to evaluate the Waymo Driver's compliance with road rules, developing evaluation frameworks for international road rules, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to inform deployment decisions.

Software Quality Operations Specialist at Waymo. This role partners with Engineering to design, test, and deploy ML and Gen-AI models for issue discovery and triage. The specialist will leverage AI insights to identify on-road issue trends and define policies for integrating AI tools into operational workflows.

Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager, Perception Optimization at Waymo. This role involves leading a team of software engineers focused on optimizing sensor data processing for perception models using CPUs and GPUs. The position requires expertise in system-level optimization and a deep understanding of compute hardware.

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Performance at Waymo. This role involves acting as a Technical Lead for a team of ~5 engineers focused on ML model performance optimization. Responsibilities include setting technical vision, driving complex projects across teams, and analyzing/optimizing ML model performance at various levels of the stack.

Senior Software Engineer at Waymo focused on Eval Authoring APIs. This role involves driving the technical architecture and implementation of core services for evaluation workflows, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior engineers.

Senior Software Engineer for Waymo's Fleet Response Infrastructure team. This role involves developing mission-critical full-stack systems for real-time collaboration between autonomous vehicles and human operators. Responsibilities include ensuring end-to-end reliability, performance, and scalability of web applications, working on frontend and backend infrastructure, and advising cross-functional teams.

Senior Technical Program Manager for Simulation at Waymo. This role focuses on owning and driving the execution of large, cross-functional programs within the Simulation and ML Evaluation domain. Responsibilities include translating technical roadmaps into project plans, integrating simulation into the ML development loop, and managing technical dependencies and risks.

Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Waymo focused on Simulation Realism. This role involves developing state-of-the-art simulations of realistic environments for testing and training the Waymo Driver, utilizing advanced ML algorithms to model real-world elements like agents, roads, and weather.

Staff Product Data Scientist at Waymo focused on infrastructure. This role involves building and maintaining data science models to inform infrastructure decisions, designing quantitative frameworks to assess efficiency, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to optimize infrastructure for service expansion.

Senior Staff Engineer, Agentic AI Engineering at Waymo. This hybrid role involves designing, building, and deploying production-grade agentic AI systems to address complex evaluation challenges and automate scaling for Waymo's autonomous driving technology.

Senior Research Scientist at Waymo focused on AI Foundations Recipes. This hybrid role involves partnering with foundation model training teams to optimize data mixtures, training curricula, and objectives. The scientist will design global-scale pipelines for data updates, develop data-selection algorithms, and run empirical studies to link pre-training data composition to downstream performance.

Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead Manager at Waymo in San Francisco, California. This role involves cross-functional collaboration with product, UX, legal, and operations teams, taking ownership of initiatives, and driving them to completion. Requires technical roadmap definition and performance management experience.

The Market Operations Lead for the San Francisco Bay Area at Waymo will own the end-to-end performance of commercial ride-hail operations. This role requires a decisive leader to architect operational success, champion the rider experience, and ensure safe, reliable, and scalable autonomous ride-hailing service.

Waymo is seeking a 2027 Summer Intern for their PhD program in Vehicle Intent and Prediction. The intern will train and evaluate models, leverage existing models for data quality signals, design measures of effectiveness, and develop data pipelines for synthetic training data.

Waymo is seeking a Tech Lead Manager for Backend in Warsaw. This hybrid role involves defining roadmaps for high-performance pipelines, managing and mentoring a team of engineers, driving scientific rigor in evaluation, and leading ML integration for testing efficiency.

This is a Lead Program Manager role within Waymo's Software Quality Operations team, focusing on new markets and platforms. The role involves leading a team of 5 and is responsible for ensuring the safety, reliability, and quality of Waymo's autonomous driving technology during expansion into new cities and vehicle platforms.

Waymo is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Commercialization team in Los Angeles, CA. This hybrid role involves building and evolving mission-critical horizontal infrastructure and tooling for ride-hailing and fleet management systems, requiring collaboration across multiple engineering and functional teams.

Staff Software Engineer/Tech Lead at Waymo focused on Onboard Model Consolidation. This role involves leading software architecture and infrastructure development for integrating models across onboard subsystems, designing frameworks for model integration and inference, and spearheading the unification of model data generation. The position requires developing simulation solutions for testing and evaluation, collaborating with model teams for productionization, and establishing best practices to accelerate model development.

Staff Systems Test Engineer, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems at Waymo. This role focuses on designing scalable quality control methodologies for test creation and managing a meta-quality assurance framework to improve overall test quality. The engineer will architect how work is verified at increased scale and build dashboards to identify improvement opportunities.

Waymo is seeking a Structured Testing Vendor Engineering Lead to govern a large-scale test engineering program involving vendor test engineers across multiple vendors and proving grounds. This role will drive alignment on technical workflows, establish long-term project roadmaps incorporating automation and AI tooling, and develop sustainable engineering workflows.

Staff Tech Lead for Waymo's ML Data Infrastructure and Inference Platform. This role involves building and leading the ML data infrastructure platform, working with various modeling teams to understand their data needs, and mentoring a team of engineers.

Staff Tech Lead Software Engineer on the Vehicle Realism Platform team at Waymo. This role involves collaborating with engineers to expand simulation capabilities, improve simulator reliability, and design long-term architectures for realistic autonomous driving simulation.

Waymo is seeking a Technical Lead Manager for Collision Avoidance Testing. This role involves leading a team, setting OKRs, guiding work, and developing careers. The lead will interface with stakeholders on the testing framework and AV behavior, and work with the simulation team on integrating sim technology into testing.

Waymo is hiring a Talent Acquisition Operations Program Manager in Mountain View, CA. This hybrid role involves defining and executing TA Operations roadmaps, managing TA technology platforms, driving continuous improvement of the TA tech stack, and partnering with People Analytics to establish key TA metrics and derive insights.

Waymo is seeking a Technical Lead Manager for Route & Motion Generation in Mountain View or San Francisco, California. This hybrid role involves providing technical leadership for onboard motion planning systems, improving evaluation capabilities, mentoring junior engineers, and developing foundational frameworks for autonomous driving.

Waymo is seeking a Tech Lead Manager for Data Engineering to lead a team responsible for the Commercialization Data Lake and associated pipelines. This role involves defining technical vision, overseeing data pipeline development, and ensuring data quality and governance.

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on LLM/VLM model architecture and optimization at Waymo. This role involves designing VLM/LLM model architectures, optimizing model performance for on-device use cases in constrained environments, and collaborating with research, software, hardware, and product teams.

Staff Software Engineer focused on Collision Avoidance Testing at Waymo. This role involves architecting software and designing systems for scalable testing of autonomous vehicle collision avoidance, integrating simulation technologies, and developing automation tools. The engineer will also mentor junior team members.

Waymo is seeking a Global Product Marketing Lead to set the vision and strategy for product marketing. This role will serve as a strategic partner to Product, Engineering, and Operations leadership, influencing roadmaps and driving alignment. The lead will develop holistic marketing strategies for Waymo's ride-hailing product and beyond, from positioning and launch through adoption and growth.

Waymo is hiring a 2027 Summer Intern for Machine Learning and Simulation Realism in Los Angeles, CA. This role involves contributing to existing projects, implementing research ideas, and running training and evaluation experiments. Candidates must be enrolled in a Master's or PhD program and have Python coding and Deep Learning experience.

Waymo is hiring a California State Policy Manager to advocate for autonomous driving technology. This role involves direct engagement with California state legislators, the Governor's office, and executive agencies, as well as outreach to regional and county officials in Solano, Yolo, and Napa counties. The manager will also analyze the political landscape to identify risks and advise leadership.

Machine Learning Engineer at Waymo focused on simulation realism. This role involves applying Generative AI and foundation models to enhance the fidelity and steerability of autonomous vehicle simulations, managing innovations from prototyping to productization.

Head of Logistics at Waymo, a hybrid role reporting to a Head of Vehicle/SDS Supply Planning & Materials. This executive position involves designing and managing global transportation networks, scaling the logistics organization, overseeing financial planning and cost reduction, implementing reverse logistics protocols, and driving the adoption of TMS and ERP systems.

Waymo is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Fleet Management Tools to define and execute product roadmaps for fleet operations tooling. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to address operational pain points and leverage real-time metrics to empower market leaders and fleet partners.

Research Scientist at Waymo focused on RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling. This hybrid role involves researching and developing RL and Distillation techniques for autonomous vehicle trajectory planning, participating in world model evaluation, and integrating new AI research into Waymo's infrastructure.

Senior Software Engineer, Internal Tooling at Waymo. This role involves designing and implementing reliability tooling software infrastructure to help various teams understand and apply insights about AV fleet reliability. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams, perform data analysis, and document tooling for diverse user groups.

This is a hybrid Training Delivery Manager role at Waymo, reporting to the Head of Waymo Training and Documentation. The role involves designing and implementing technician and workshop management curricula, conducting train-the-trainer programs, and performing site audits to ensure training proficiency and identify operational improvements.

Senior Software Engineer on the Planner Evaluation team at Waymo. This role focuses on developing and productionizing data pipelines for ML and evaluation datasets, designing infrastructure for data mining and analysis, and architecting large-scale data platforms to process driving logs and simulation data for autonomous vehicle software.

Staff Software Engineer, Compute Reliability at Waymo. This role focuses on building architectures, tools, and workflows to prevent, identify, and fix reliability and software integrity issues in onboard compute platforms. Responsibilities include designing instrumentation, implementing strategies for hardware reliability and numerical stability, and leading cross-functional initiatives to address issues from compilers and model changes.

Research Scientist, Prediction & Planning at Waymo. This role involves designing, implementing, and evaluating generative models for autonomous vehicle planning and prediction. The position requires developing ML-powered systems, translating real-world challenges into ML problems, and writing production-ready code.