Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

The Waymo Mapping team's goal is to build a high resolution map of the world to support safe autonomous driving. We work on creating the map using a combination of automatic and manual techniques and build the infrastructure to store, process, and distribute the map. Our team collaborates with several other Waymo teams that consume map data.

As a member of the infrastructure team, you work on efficiency and utilization improvements of our software stack, own resource planning and acquisition, monitoring, and serving infrastructure for state of the art ML models - all in service of building a system that can generate a high-definition map of the world.

You will:

• Lead a team of software engineers to help us scale our mapping infrastructure and to transform the mapping schema.


• Evaluate and launch machine learning models that automatically generate map from raw data.


• Work with onboard teams to evolve Waymo’s mapping format to make it more automation friendly.


• Build backend infrastructure for storing and processing many forms of map data


• Scale our systems to support mapping the whole world

You have:

• Experienced technical leader (or as a people manager)


• 7+ years of industry experience


• Proven track record of leading a team to solve difficult technical challenges


• Experience with large-scale data processing using frameworks like Google Data Flow or Apache Beam


• Willingness to own problems end-to-end and work on various parts of the system


• A passion for good software engineering

We prefer:

• M.S. or Ph.D in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience


• Experience in Mapping and Localization

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range

$238,000—$302,000 USD