Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response
Core
Lead engineering analysis and response to novel, rare, or unexpected events encountered by Waymo's autonomous vehicle fleet in the field, ensuring system robustness and adaptability.
Role type
Principal Software Engineer (Onboard Field Response / SRE-like)
Builds
Production software systems and machine learning models for autonomous driving
Domain
Autonomous driving / Robotics
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale production software leadership, machine learning systems leadership, oncall rotation management, software architecture design, organizational leadership, cross-functional partnership
Preferred skills
Hybrid hardware/software production systems leadership, modern deep ML / large scale models leadership, change management in 1000+ person engineering organizations
Technologies
Autonomous vehicle software stacks, machine learning frameworks, simulation environments
Responsibilities
Organize and participate in oncall rotations for field driving issues, harden software and develop playbooks for robustness, lead engineering analysis and response to fleet events, partner with organization leads to improve engineering best practices, contribute to software architecture for robustness and debuggability, hire and manage additional engineers as needed
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with organizational leadership