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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Jul 9, 2026
Salary
$251,000–$310,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Staff Engineer, Agentic AI Engineering

Job description

In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Director.

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 mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases.

Waymo's core business scale is bottlenecked by improving long tail behaviors. The growth in vehicles, platforms, geos (e.g.

Job responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems to solve complex, open-ended evaluation challenges.
  • Develop robust, automated evaluation frameworks and objective metrics to continuously measure the accuracy, safety, and reliability of non-deterministic AI agents.
  • Automate the building and scaling of the hardest eval problem inhibiting Waymo's scale.

Job requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proven technical leader with a track record of designing, building, evaluating, and deploying novel agent-based AI solutions into production
  • Deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with heavy, hands-on experience building autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration systems, and integrating LLMs with external tools/APIs.
  • Extensive experience (typically 7+ years) in software engineering, with a significant focus on architecting and building large-scale, complex systems.
  • Proven ability to define technical strategy, influence senior leadership, and drive execution across multiple teams in ambiguous and rapidly evolving domains.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
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