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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Manufacturing
Posted
Aug 5, 2026
Salary
$230,000–$284,000 a year
Full-time

Staff Systems Test Engineer, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems

Job description

Waymo's Systems Engineering team works together to blend software and hardware systems in groundbreaking new ways. We set the high performance standards that ensure our vehicles run smoothly and keep passengers safe, then design and perform the tests that validate that performance. We're looking for talented teammates who’ll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results.

In this hyrbid role, you will be reporting to a Staff Program Manager

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…

Job responsibilities

  • Design Scalable Quality Architecture: Move the organization towards scalable QC (Quality Control) methodologies for test creation (e.g., statistical sampling, risk-based auditing, and automated validation).
  • 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…

Job requirements

  • 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

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