Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Response Efficiency & Optimization

Waymo is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of Fleet Response operations. The role focuses on developing operational optimizations, partnering across teams, and improving detection and investigation of changes that affect operational metrics.

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