Waymo · 3 hours ago
Staff Systems Engineer, Fleet Response & Resiliency
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$196K/yr - $248K/yr
5+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Staff Systems Engineer will work with cross-functional teams to develop and implement requirements and strategies for ride-hailing operations, ensuring safety and performance standards are met.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Work with cross functional teams including software engineers, product managers, safety engineers, and operations leads to develop and implement requirements, system architecture, and verification strategy for ride hailing operations including processes, procedures, and tooling for nominal and emergency situations such as trip interruptions, severe weather, and outages at both the individual ADV and fleet wide level
Develop deep understanding of existing and new operations procedures, ADV responses, and tooling capabilities to inform recommendations to senior leaders and drive safety related decisions
Drive development of evaluation methodologies for operational processes, procedures, and tooling alongside operations & safety leads
Triage and deep dive on field events when they occur to identify areas for improvement in design. Be the point person for retrospectives and implement improvements to test coverage and processes to prevent similar issues from happening in the future
Qualification
Required
A bachelor's degree in computer science or other technical field
At least 5 years of experience in systems engineering, safety engineering, or a related field
Ability to apply your existing deep technical knowledge in fields to new areas & learn quickly
A systems engineering mindset and a proactive, data-driven approach to fixing problems
Experience managing diverse stakeholders and driving high level cross functional alignment
Comfortable juggling multiple projects at once and working in ambiguity
Preferred
Strong foundation in system engineering fundamentals such as requirements definition, formal verification and validation methods
Experience working in operations & deploying features or products at scale
Experience working with a safety critical system
A background in software engineering or strong software foundation including an ability to read C++ to understand feature implementation and debug issues more effectively
Ability to query data sets (SQL) and create dashboards for debugging and performance monitoring
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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