Senior Software Engineer

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and operates autonomous ride-hail services. The Senior Software Engineer will optimize Fleet Response operations by reducing workload and costs, improving operational metrics, and collaborating across teams to identify and implement efficiencies.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement measures to increase the efficiency and decrease the cost of Fleet Response operations
• Partner with other teams at Waymo to find headroom in their shares of operational workload
• Generate and research ideas for new optimizations of the work operators perform
• Work with onboard engineering teams to sunset operational work that is no longer necessary
• Contribute to cross-functional analysis and optimization efforts
• Improve regression-detection and culprit-finding for changes that negatively impact operational metrics

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
• 5+ years of industry experience navigating complex systems with distributed ownership
• Experience with C++ or related structured programming language
• A curious, investigative mindset with a bias towards action
• Strong ability to dive into new problems and codebases
• Experience working with non-technical cross-functional partners
• Experience designing analytical frameworks to answer difficult product questions
• An innate desire to make things better and reject the status quo