Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response

As the Onboard Field Response Lead, you will play a key role in our continuous improvement cycle. Your primary responsibility will be to lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare, or unexpected events encountered by the fleet in the field. This includes rapidly improving the Waymo Driver in some of the most challenging driving situations we encounter, participating in high-judgment decisions given new driving situations, and proactively evolving the Onboard Software system to enhance its robustness and adaptability to these really challenging situations.

This unique role blends the technical complexity of AI with the real-world complexity and impact of driving at scale. The challenges of ensuring field performance for a distributed, mobile, real-world system like ours are unprecedented.