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Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Response Efficiency & Optimization

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 Experi

Company

Waymo

Location

Mountain View; CA San Francisco, CA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-29T16:47:21+00:00

A Senior Software Engineer at Waymo works on fleet response operations, designing and implementing changes that reduce cost and improve efficiency. The role involves finding headroom in other teams' operational workload, testing optimization ideas, retiring unnecessary operational work with onboard engineers, and improving regression detection for metrics affected by system changes. The posting asks for a computer science degree, five or more years navigating complex systems with distributed ownership, and C++ or a similar structured language. It prefers analytical frameworks and investigative problem-solving; the salary is $213,000–$263,000 USD.