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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Apr 28, 2026
Salary
$349,000–$431,000 a year
Full-time

Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response

Job description

The Onboard Software team develops the critical software and machine learning models that power the Waymo Driver. Our systems enable the vehicle to perceive its surroundings, make safe driving decisions, and transport people to their destinations. With Waymo's fleet driving millions of miles every week, we operate at a scale that exposes our technology to a vast array of challenging real-world scenarios.

As the Onboard Field Response Lead, you will play a key role in our continuous improvement cycle. Your primary responsibility will be to lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare, or unexpected events encountered by the fleet in the field.

Job 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.

Job requirements

  • 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
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