Waymo

Staff Engineer, Agentic AI Engineering

Waymo
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2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$251k - $310k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems for complex evaluation challenges.
  • Develop robust automated evaluation frameworks and objective metrics for continuously measuring the accuracy, safety, and reliability of non-deterministic AI agents.
  • Automate the building and scaling of difficult evaluation problems that limit Waymo’s operational scale.
  • Define technical strategy and drive execution across multiple teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proven technical leadership designing, building, evaluating, and deploying novel agent-based AI solutions into production.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration systems, and integrating LLMs with external tools and APIs.
  • Typically 7+ years of software engineering experience focused significantly on architecting and building large-scale, complex systems.
  • Ability to define technical strategy, influence senior leadership, and drive execution across multiple teams.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • PhD in Computer Science or a related field specializing in AI/ML is preferred.
  • Experience with agentic frameworks, knowledge graphs, reasoning engines, C++, production-grade services, autonomous-vehicle simulation, testing, or evaluation is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Google’s or Waymo’s internal AI/ML platforms and infrastructure is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement
  • Full-time position
  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Equity incentive plan
  • Company benefits program

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About Waymo

1,001-5,000 employees

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