Senior Software Engineer - Mapping and Field Response

Waymo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer focused on Onboard Field Response to help advance autonomous driving technology. This position is based in Mountain View, CA. Role overview This role centers on improving how autonomous vehicles respond in real-world environments. The Principal Software Engineer will design and implement software for onboard systems, working to ensure vehicles operate smoothly and efficiently. What you will do Design and build software solutions for onboard field response Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate and refine technology Contribute to the ongoing innovation of Waymo's autonomous vehicle systems Requirements Expertise in software engineering and a strong background in developing solutions for complex systems are essential for this role.

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been relentless in its mission to develop the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™. This innovative technology aims to enhance mobility access and significantly reduce traffic-related fatalities. Our Waymo Driver powers a fully autonomous ride-hail service, having successfully completed over ten million rider-only trips, driven more than 100 million miles on public roads, and engaged in tens of billions of miles in simulation across more than 15 states in the U.S.The Onboard Infrastructure Team plays a crucial role in the design and development of the fundamental infrastructure for Autonomous Driving Vehicle (ADV) systems, which includes critical components such as perception, planning, and routing functionalities. This team is responsible for defining the architecture and frameworks necessary to implement these essential systems. Additionally, the team oversees the entire runtime environment for both on-car systems and large-scale simulations, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and an exceptional developer experience throughout the development lifecycle. This is a hybrid position, reporting to a Staff Engineer, Tech Lead Manager.In this hybrid role, you will report to a Staff Software Engineer / TLM.Your Responsibilities:Lead architectural and framework enhancements to improve driving quality, performance, reliability, and overall developer experience.Comprehensively understand the Waymo code lifecycle—from deployment on autonomous vehicles to conducting large-scale simulations—to ensure top-tier quality across all operational environments.Design, implement, and deploy essential C++ APIs that handle critical functions such as asynchronous management, experimentation pipelines, multi-platform deployments, complex data extraction, debugging tools, and advanced system visualization.Act as a pivotal resource for onboard teams, assisting them in optimizing software setups for maximum efficiency, flexibility, scalability, and reliability, ensuring alignment with Waymo's rapidly evolving requirements.Enhance our internal tools, infrastructure, and development processes to accelerate engineering velocity while maintaining stringent control over system complexity, performance, reliability, and developer experience.

Role Overview Nuro is looking for a Software Engineer focused on Onboard Systems to help build and refine the software powering autonomous delivery vehicles. This position is based at Nuro's headquarters in Mountain View, California. What You Will Do Design and implement software for onboard vehicle systems Work closely with team members to improve reliability and efficiency of onboard technology Contribute to the development of solutions that support autonomous vehicle operations Collaboration Work alongside engineers and other specialists who are committed to advancing autonomous delivery. Expect to share ideas, solve problems together, and help shape the future of Nuro's onboard systems.

Who We Are Nuro is at the forefront of self-driving technology, committed to making autonomy accessible to everyone. Since our inception in 2016, we have been developing the world's most scalable autonomous vehicle driver, merging advanced AI with robust automotive hardware. Our flagship technology, the Nuro Driver™, is licensed across various applications, including robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. With years of proven technology from self-driving deployments, Nuro provides automakers and mobility platforms a clear pathway to commercial-scale autonomous vehicles, paving the way for a safer, richer, and interconnected future. About the Role As our software team expands, we are seeking skilled engineers to play a pivotal role in one of the following areas: Onboard Systems, Performance, or Devices Platform. Onboard Systems: Our onboard systems team develops reliable and high-performance platforms that enable integration of autonomy software and algorithms across various self-driving platforms. This role necessitates close collaboration with software, hardware, and systems/safety teams to ensure seamless and safe integration of new software and hardware, while addressing onboard errors and performance challenges. Performance: The Performance team is dedicated to optimizing Nuro’s AV software, ensuring our vehicles can respond quickly and safely to their environments. This team creates systems and tools for continuous performance analysis while driving efforts in latency reduction and resource efficiency to support our autonomy teams in implementing an effective autonomy stack for current and future generations of the Nuro Driver. Devices Platform: The Devices Platform team lays the groundwork for Nuro’s onboard software related to our sensor and compute platform, including device drivers, inter-device protocols, and runtime APIs. We are creating a hardware-agnostic platform for the perception and autonomy software stack, maximizing the reliability, quality, and performance of our sensor and compute hardware. This team collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to define, evaluate, and integrate next-generation hardware platforms for Nuro’s products while developing necessary tooling for continuous testing and validation. About You You possess substantial expertise and experience in several of the following areas:

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world’s most trusted driver. Originating from Google's Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been tirelessly developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access while significantly reducing traffic-related fatalities. The Waymo Driver powers our fully autonomous ride-hailing service and is adaptable to diverse vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips completed and more than 100 million miles driven autonomously on public roads, Waymo continues to lead the industry in safety and efficiency.As a member of the Onboard Software Performance team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that systems operating on Autonomously Driven Vehicles (ADV) adhere to stringent performance standards. This includes delivering essential outputs within strict latency constraints while optimizing the allocation of computing resources (CPU/GPU/TPU/RAM) for each submodule, all while maintaining high reliability and supporting rapid system evolution.

Waymo, an innovator in autonomous driving technology, aims to be the world’s most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo’s goal is to enhance mobility access and prevent traffic-related fatalities. The Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—powers our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, having completed over ten million rider-only trips and traveled more than 100 million miles on public roads across 15+ U.S. states.The Planner/Perception Reliability team is dedicated to developing architectures, tools, and workflows that proactively address reliability challenges. Our focus is on ensuring the health of onboard software while maintaining high velocity in development.In this hybrid role, you will report to a Staff Software Engineer/Tech Lead Manager.Your Responsibilities Include:Designing the foundational architecture for onboard reliability, creating essential infrastructure and tools that enhance the robustness and reliability of onboard software.Gaining a comprehensive understanding of system behavior, implementing concise, low-noise metrics that provide immediate insights into vehicle and overall fleet performance.Collaborating across teams at Waymo to streamline reliability workflows, ensuring our business-critical operations run smoothly and safely at scale.Developing systems for proactive anomaly detection and automation of clustering, significantly easing the management of reliability and enabling early issue detection.

Join our innovative team at LinkedIn as a Principal Staff Software Engineer specializing in Trust. In this pivotal role, you will lead the development of scalable and secure systems, ensuring user trust and data integrity. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize solutions that enhance the platform's security and user experience.As a key contributor, you will leverage your expertise in software engineering and security practices to influence product direction and drive technical excellence. Your leadership will empower teams to deliver high-quality software that meets our users' needs and expectations.

Who We Are Nuro is a pioneering self-driving technology firm dedicated to making autonomous vehicles accessible to everyone. Established in 2016, we are developing the world’s most scalable autonomous driving system, merging advanced AI with high-quality automotive hardware. Our flagship technology, the Nuro Driver™, is licensed to enable various applications, including robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. With years of successful self-driving implementations, Nuro empowers automakers and mobility platforms to transition to autonomous vehicles at a commercial scale—ushering in a safer, more connected future. About the Role We are in search of a talented Autonomy Engineer with a focus on onboard autonomy—the software that operates on our robots and vehicles, making real-time decisions based on onboard sensors and computational resources. You will be responsible for developing and deploying reliable autonomy features that function under stringent latency, computational, and safety requirements in dynamic real-world environments. What You’ll Do Design, integrate, and implement onboard autonomy behaviors such as navigation, obstacle avoidance, lane and route following, docking, and interaction behaviors. Develop and maintain components for real-time decision-making, including behavior planning, state machines/behavior trees, local planning, and control interfaces. Create robust sensor-driven autonomy pipelines on-device (using camera, lidar, radar, IMU, wheel odometry, GNSS), ensuring synchronization, calibration, and fault handling. Optimize autonomy performance concerning latency, CPU/GPU utilization, memory, and power on embedded systems such as NVIDIA Jetson and custom ECUs. Design and implement safety measures and fallback strategies, including health monitoring, degraded operational modes, watchdog systems, safe-stop protocols, and redundancy-aware logic. Oversee the integration of the autonomy stack on robotic platforms, including bring-up, debugging, profiling, logging, and release validation on actual hardware. Enhance onboard observability through structured logs, traces, metrics, event recording, and tools to facilitate incident reviews and quick iterations. Collaborate with teams in perception, mapping/localization, controls, hardware, and systems to establish clear interfaces and deliver comprehensive features. Engage in field testing and conduct root-cause analysis for autonomy issues encountered during real deployments.

About Our TeamThe Systems Engineering team at Nuro plays a pivotal role in defining the requirements, architecture, and validation processes for our autonomous driving capabilities. We focus on establishing performance metrics, evaluation methods, and success criteria that guide cross-functional efforts through requirement definitions and system validations. Operating at the intersection of hardware, software, and robotic operations, we possess a profound understanding of technologies across these domains. Our small, high-impact team sets the benchmarks for autonomy deployment.About the RoleAs a Senior/Staff Software Engineer specializing in Fault Response Verification, you will collaborate closely with our Autonomy development, evaluation infrastructure, and data science teams. Your responsibilities will include defining system-level behavior requirements in the presence of faults, developing metrics to identify requirement violations, creating innovative validation tools and pipelines for integration into our Safety Case and risk assessment frameworks, and contributing to risk quantification. Your work will significantly influence our immediate deployments and long-term autonomy feature roadmap, enhancing Nuro's operational fleet.Key ResponsibilitiesAnalyze the system-level implications of Nuro’s autonomy architecture and software to understand the interdependencies of failure modes and fault responses.Establish requirements for fault response, decomposing them through the autonomy software and hardware framework.Lead fault-centric validation from prototype through to production testing.Develop tools and data engineering frameworks to inject faults into the autonomy stack and interpret simulation, on-road, and closed-course testing results to evaluate mission capabilities and safety.Work with autonomy developers to identify high-impact metrics and performance indicators that assess our robots’ readiness to operate autonomously under degraded software states.Enhance tooling for automated evaluation of test logs to verify compliance with contingency requirements.About YouProven experience in software engineering with a focus on fault response verification.Strong analytical skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.Passion for autonomous systems and a commitment to safety and reliability.

Join Our Team!The Ads Infrastructure team at Unity Technologies is at the forefront of building and managing the backbone of one of the world’s largest real-time advertising platforms. Our robust infrastructure supports every aspect of Unity Ads, facilitating segmentation, optimization, bidding, traffic routing, experimentation, and analytics on a global scale.We prioritize the development of resilient, scalable, and cost-effective systems that handle immense traffic volumes across various regions while adhering to stringent latency and availability standards. Our platform leverages cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Starrocks, Valkey, and other cloud-native components, empowering engineers, data scientists, and product teams to propel Unity Ads towards success.This senior individual contributor position holds significant technical influence across the organization. You will take ownership of pivotal architectural decisions, guide long-term platform advancements, and collaborate with team members, senior managers, and directors to shape the technical trajectory of Ads Infrastructure while maintaining a hands-on approach.

Join Waymo as a Principal Software Engineer, ML System Architect, where you'll leverage your expertise in machine learning to architect innovative software solutions. As a core member of our engineering team, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of autonomous driving technology.

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Born from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo develops the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access and drastically reduce traffic-related fatalities. Our fully autonomous ride-hail service has completed over ten million rider-only trips, thanks to the Waymo Driver's extensive experience of autonomously navigating more than 100 million miles on public roads and executing tens of billions of miles in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.The Software Engineering team is instrumental in crafting the intelligence behind Waymo's autonomous driving technology. Our sophisticated software empowers the Waymo Driver to interpret its surroundings, make critical decisions in real-time, and transport passengers safely to their destinations. We tackle complex technical challenges in fields such as robotics, perception, decision-making, and deep learning, working closely with hardware and systems engineers. If you are a software engineer or researcher with a passion for Level 4 autonomous driving, we invite you to apply.Every mile logged by a Waymo vehicle generates a unique and invaluable dataset, which is crucial for refining our machine learning models and enhancing the safety and efficacy of the Waymo Driver. You will lead the architecture of a comprehensive data-driven self-improvement loop that integrates every autonomous mile into our machine learning processes. This involves collaboration with Waymo's infrastructure, modeling, and evaluation teams to continuously scale and improve the entire ML lifecycle.In this role, you will report to our Distinguished Engineer, Foundation Models.

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has tirelessly worked on developing the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access and save lives lost to traffic accidents. The Waymo Driver fuels our fully autonomous ride-hailing service and can adapt to various vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips completed, Waymo has amassed more than 100 million miles driven autonomously on public roads, supplemented by tens of billions of simulated miles across 15+ U.S. states.The Perception team at Waymo is instrumental in crafting the technology that empowers the Waymo Driver. Our advanced models enable the Waymo Driver to interpret its surroundings, make informed decisions, and ensure safe passage for passengers. Engaging in research to tackle real-world challenges, we collaborate closely with Alphabet's research teams. Our access to extensive driving data from diverse sensors allows machine learning practitioners to develop scalable multi-modal models and techniques.You will report directly to our Director of Engineering within the Perception Organization.

Harness is at the forefront of AI-driven software delivery, founded by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who previously founded AppDynamics, which was acquired by Cisco for an impressive $3.7 billion. With around $570 million in funding and a valuation of $5.5 billion, Harness is supported by top investors such as Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, and Citi Ventures. In a landscape where AI is revolutionizing code generation, the focus has shifted to enhancing the post-code processes, including testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost management. Harness leverages AI and automation to streamline this "outer loop" of software delivery, empowering teams to accelerate their software releases while ensuring robust security and governance throughout the entire lifecycle. Utilizing Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, our platform integrates deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle, embedding governance and policy-driven controls seamlessly. Over the past year, Harness has facilitated more than 185 million deployments, 82 million builds, 18 trillion flag evaluations, 8 million security scans, 9.1 billion optimized tests, and protected 3 trillion API calls, managing $2.8 billion in cloud expenditure. Our clients, including United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels, have experienced up to 75% faster release cycles, reduced cloud costs by as much as 60%, and achieved an impressive 10x efficiency in their DevOps practices. With a diverse global team spread across 14 offices in 25 countries, Harness is poised to redefine the future of AI software delivery, and we are eager to welcome exceptional talent to propel us forward.

Waymo, a pioneering autonomous driving technology company, is on a mission to become the most reliable driver in the world. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has dedicated itself to creating the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access and save countless lives currently lost to traffic accidents. The Waymo Driver is the backbone of Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hailing service and is adaptable across various vehicle platforms and use cases. Having completed over ten million rider-only trips and accumulated over 100 million miles of autonomous driving on public roads, alongside tens of billions of miles in simulation across 15+ U.S. states, Waymo is at the forefront of this transformative technology.The Onboard Frameworks Team is essential in providing the foundational components necessary for developing Waymo's onboard software ecosystem. This team collaborates closely with onboard engineers to design, implement, and deploy critical APIs, streamline development workflows, and provide tools that significantly enhance the development speed across the organization.

Waymo is a trailblazer in autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the most trusted driver in the world. Originating as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, our mission has been to develop the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—which enhances mobility access and aims to save thousands of lives currently lost in traffic accidents. The Waymo Driver powers our fully autonomous ride-hailing service and can be integrated across various vehicle platforms and product applications. With over ten million rider-only trips, our technology has been validated through more than 100 million miles of autonomous driving on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.As a Technical Program Manager at Waymo, you will play a pivotal role in executing our roadmap by fostering effective cross-functional planning, ensuring clarity, and proactively managing risks. In a landscape filled with intricate technical and operational challenges lacking predefined solutions, you will act with a sense of urgency, driving critical conversations and outcomes. Collaborating closely with all functions at Waymo, you will structure, own, and propel the work necessary for real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and regions.This position follows a hybrid work model and reports to a Technical Program Manager.

Join Waymo as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Onboard Software Integrity Infrastructure. In this role, you will develop and enhance software systems that ensure the reliability and safety of our autonomous vehicle technology. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions that uphold the highest integrity standards in software performance.

Join Databricks as a Lead Security Architect and play a pivotal role in fortifying our IT infrastructure. In this fast-paced environment, you will design and implement a secure and scalable architecture to safeguard our corporate assets. Your focus will encompass crucial aspects of IT security, including Identity and Access Management (IAM), Zero Trust architecture, and endpoint security, all while ensuring the protection of critical business applications and sensitive data.Your deep expertise in security principles and comprehensive understanding of the entire infrastructure stack will be invaluable in crafting robust security solutions that are future-ready. You will help enhance the resilience and integrity of our systems against the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape.This position is critical for shaping our security strategy across various modern platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS solutions. You will establish a strong least privilege (PoLP) model, provide specialized IAM expertise, and securely support SaaS with sensitive information. Additionally, you will contribute to our internal strategy for secure AI development.Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential to embed security throughout the technology stack, ensuring that our internal strategies align with enterprise security standards.

Research Engineer / Scientist, Response Quality/HermesMountain View, CAAt Google DeepMind, we celebrate the diversity of experiences and perspectives, leveraging them to create a transformative impact. We are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all, regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status. If you require accommodations due to a disability or other needs, please let us know.Team OverviewJoin a visionary team.At Google DeepMind, our multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists is pivotal in advancing Gemini’s post-training evolution. Our goal is to evolve Gemini from a static answer engine into a dynamic, collaborative AI partner capable of rich, multi-faceted interactions.Our initiatives encompass a comprehensive range of model alignment and interaction design, including:Advanced Modeling Techniques: Innovating and scaling SFT, RL, and Reward Modeling techniques to enhance multi-turn reasoning and collaborative behaviors.Next-Generation Evaluation: Developing autonomous user-agent evaluation methods to emulate complex interactions and measure the quality of human-AI exchanges.Multimodal Response Generation: Enhancing user experience by integrating diverse formats such as images, charts, and interactive widgets beyond traditional text responses.About Google DeepMindArtificial Intelligence is poised to be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, our team of scientists, engineers, and machine learning experts collaborate to push the boundaries of AI technology. Our commitment to safety and ethics ensures that we prioritize public benefit and scientific discovery in all our endeavors.Role OverviewAs a Research Engineer/Scientist within the Gemini Post-Training team, you'll play a crucial role in bridging the gap between core model alignment and next-gen interactive AI. You will reimagine how Gemini engages, reasons, and collaborates with users through complex, multi-turn exchanges.