Waymo

Staff Software Engineer, DUE Experience

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1 day ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$251k - $310k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead architectural design and hands-on development of advanced agentic AI systems for event triage.
  • Build scalable LLM-orchestrated workflows that automate and augment triage for Engineering and SWQOps.
  • Design and deploy stateful agentic infrastructure, including long-term memory, semantic routing, and internal tool integrations.
  • Embed autonomous agents into the Waymo Driver evaluation lifecycle in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Mentor engineers on agentic development patterns and prompt engineering.
  • Define and execute a technical roadmap for ambiguous, multi-agent automation projects.

Requirements

  • Typically 8+ years of software engineering experience designing and building large-scale, complex distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in applied LLMs and agentic AI development, including multi-agent systems, reasoning engines, and autonomous workflows.
  • Strong proficiency with agent orchestration frameworks and advanced prompt engineering.
  • Proven ability to execute technical strategy, influence partner teams, and deliver AI-native applications end to end.
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred: Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or a related field with an AI/ML specialization.
  • Preferred: Experience building agent tools or plugins, semantic routers, and complex multi-agent collaboration patterns.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with autonomous-vehicle simulation, testing, or evaluation.
  • Preferred: Proficiency in C++ and Python, with experience building production-grade microservices and pipelines.
  • Preferred: Experience with large-scale data processing, knowledge graphs, and distributed systems.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with Google’s or Waymo’s internal AI/ML platforms and infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Eligibility for an equity incentive plan.
  • Generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Full-time position with location-specific salary ranges across US locations; remote eligibility and location details are discussed during the hiring process.
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About Waymo

1,001-5,000 employees

On the journey to be the world's most trusted driver. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve mobility while saving thousands of lives. Download the Waymo One app and ride today. Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings. Need support? Send us a message – we're here to help.

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