Staff Software Engineer - Individual Contributor

Company OverviewID.me is at the forefront of digital identity verification, creating a next-generation wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. With over 152 million users, we enable seamless logins across various platforms, eliminating the need for multiple logins and verifications. Our services are utilized by 20 federal agencies, 45 state governments, and more than 70 healthcare organizations. Over 600 consumer brands leverage our technology to build authentic relationships and honor community service. ID.me adheres to the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is recognized as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. We are committed to ensuring that no one is left behind in the digital identity landscape. To explore more about us, visit https://network.id.me/.Role OverviewWe are on the lookout for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Wallet – Authentication & Verification Experiences team. This pivotal team is responsible for the core authentication and identity verification processes that millions of users depend on daily, including secure logins, multi-factor authentication, passkeys, and biometric integrations. As a Staff Engineer, you will serve as a technical cornerstone in one of the most crucial and high-traffic engineering domains at ID.me, steering architectural decisions, leading complex cross-functional projects, and elevating our standards for engineering quality, security, and reliability. You will work closely with product, security, and platform teams to shape the future of authentication and verification experiences at ID.me.This position requires on-site work at our Mountain View, CA office five days a week.

Waymo is a pioneer in autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has developed the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access while preventing countless traffic-related fatalities. The Waymo Driver powers our fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be integrated across various vehicle platforms and applications. Having completed over ten million rider-only trips, the Waymo Driver has autonomously navigated more than 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulated environments across 15+ U.S. states.Join the In-Car Experience team at Waymo, where we focus on how riders interact with our cutting-edge autonomous vehicle technology. We are responsible for designing and developing the user-facing software and systems within the vehicle, ensuring a safe and intuitive experience for every journey. Be part of our mission to shape the future of in-car interactions for autonomous ride-hailing.In this role, you will take ownership of the backend systems and API interfaces that enhance the rider experience, serving as a crucial link between the autonomous vehicle, the cloud infrastructure, and user-facing applications.

About UsNuro is at the forefront of self-driving technology, dedicated to making autonomy available to everyone. Established in 2016, we are developing the most scalable autonomous driver, integrating advanced AI with top-tier automotive hardware. The Nuro Driver™ technology is licensed for various applications, including robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. With years of successful self-driving implementations, Nuro paves the way for automakers and mobility platforms to achieve commercial-scale autonomous vehicles, fostering a future that is safer, more integrated, and enriched.Role OverviewAs a Senior/Staff Software Engineer specializing in driving behavior verification, you will play a crucial role in developing metrics to assess the complete behavior of the Nuro Driver. These metrics will be pivotal in quantifying the safety of our driving behavior within designated operational domains (ODD). Your background in behavior planning or prediction systems for robotics, along with a collaborative spirit, will allow you to effectively engage with diverse teams across Nuro, including Systems, Onboard Software, Simulation, Product, and Operations.Key ResponsibilitiesCreate and implement generalized metrics in Python to validate the driving behavior of autonomous vehicles.Utilize a mix of machine learning models and safety metrics from established literature to analyze end-to-end driving performance.Test and evaluate these metrics through various methods: synthetic and log simulations, on-road data, closed-course tests, and third-party accident analyses.Collaborate with Systems, Behavior, Perception, Data Science, Product, Legal, and Public Trust teams to define acceptance criteria for metrics and tests.Work alongside simulation infrastructure and test integration teams to establish automated verification processes.Produce comprehensive performance and validation reports demonstrating the safety of the autonomous system for deployment within our target ODD.

Join Databricks as a Staff Software Engineer in the Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI) team, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of customer engagement. Here, you will utilize cutting-edge technologies to develop innovative solutions that enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate advanced analytics and machine learning models into our product offerings, ensuring that our customers have the best experience possible.

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Perception Verification at Waymo, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the safety and performance of autonomous driving technology. Your expertise will guide the development of innovative algorithms and systems that validate perception capabilities, ensuring our vehicles can navigate the complexities of real-world environments.This position offers an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of technology, collaborating with a talented team of engineers and researchers dedicated to revolutionizing transportation.

Reliable Robotics is seeking a Senior Flight Software Verification Engineer based in Mountain View, CA. This position centers on verifying and validating flight software used in autonomous flight operations. Role overview The Senior Flight Software Verification Engineer leads initiatives to ensure the quality and reliability of flight software. Work in this role directly affects the safety and performance of advanced aviation systems. Key responsibilities Verify and validate flight software for autonomous aircraft systems Lead efforts to confirm software meets safety and reliability standards Support safe and efficient autonomous flight operations through rigorous testing Impact This position plays a central part in maintaining the safety of advanced aviation systems by focusing on the dependability of flight software.

Role Overview matx is hiring a Rust Software-Silicon Co-verification Engineer in Mountain View, CA. This position focuses on building solutions that connect software and hardware verification. The engineer will work with teams across disciplines to support the design and implementation of silicon products. What You Will Do Work with cross-functional teams to align software and hardware verification processes Apply Rust programming skills to co-verification tasks Support the development and validation of silicon products Location Mountain View, CA

About UsAt Aurora, our mission is to safely and swiftly bring the advantages of self-driving technology to the masses.Discover the Aurora Driver—a pioneering force set to redefine mobility and logistics, ensuring a future that is safer, more efficient, and accessible for everyone.Joining Aurora means engaging with complex challenges alongside a team of passionate and intelligent professionals, fostering your growth as an expert and broadening your knowledge base. Stay updated with the latest from Aurora by visiting aurora.tech or following us on LinkedIn.We are committed to building a safer transportation ecosystem, ensuring vital goods reach their destinations, and enhancing mobility for everyone. We are currently seeking a Lead Senior Staff Engineer for Vehicle Hardware Verification and Validation.As the Lead Senior Staff Engineer for Vehicle Hardware Verification and Validation, you will take charge of defining, executing, and maintaining the technical integrity of vehicle-level hardware testing. This vital position involves developing a comprehensive hardware testing program that requires close collaboration with hardware, software, systems, and safety engineering teams. You will set and refine organizational standards for test execution and documentation, while also guiding cross-functional engineering teams to ensure the rigorous verification and validation of Aurora’s cutting-edge hardware systems across all autonomous vehicle initiatives.Key Responsibilities:Strategic Development and Execution: Define and implement extensive test strategies and methodologies for autonomous hardware integrations and associated vehicle platform hardware, including design verification, system integration testing, and environmental verification.

Waymo is a pioneering company in autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, we focus on advancing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access and prevent traffic-related fatalities. The Waymo Driver powers our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, having completed over ten million rider-only trips and amassed more than 100 million miles of real-world driving and tens of billions of miles in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.Our Compute Team plays a vital role in this mission by delivering the compute platform that runs the software stack of our fully autonomous vehicles. We design and develop high-performance custom silicon and system-level compute architectures that break barriers in performance, power, and latency. Our multidisciplinary team is searching for curious and skilled individuals to contribute to one of the highest performance automotive compute platforms in the world.This position follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Silicon Engineering Lead.Your Responsibilities:Define and execute the formal verification strategy for first-pass silicon success. Own the formal verification sign-off approach across intricate IP and SoC designs using advanced formal techniques (e.g., Bounded Model Checking, Datapath Validation, Connectivity, Sequential LEC, etc.).Design and implement robust and scalable formal verification environments. Create and deploy reusable formal testbenches, methodology flows, and comprehensive SVA assertion suites for systematic application across multiple design blocks and projects.Provide technical leadership and mentorship. Act as the team’s formal Subject Matter Expert by training logic designers and verification engineers to effectively implement formal methods in their workflows.Engage in strategic planning and execute test plans. Collaborate with Architecture and Design teams to translate complex system and IP specifications into thorough formal verification test plans.Enhance FV Infrastructure and Reporting. Maintain and improve continuous integration, regression flows, and dashboards to deliver clear, actionable formal verification status and sign-off metrics.

Who We AreNuro is pioneering self-driving technology with the goal of making autonomy available to everyone. Established in 2016, Nuro is developing the world's most scalable autonomous driver, integrating advanced AI with automotive-grade hardware. Our core technology, the Nuro Driver™, is licensed for a variety of uses, ranging from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personal vehicles. With years of successful self-driving operations behind us, Nuro is paving the way for automakers and mobility platforms to implement autonomous vehicles at commercial scale, fostering a safer, more connected future.About the RoleAs a Senior/Staff Systems Engineer focusing on Autonomy Verification, your key responsibility will be to ensure the Nuro Driver's safety for deployment within our defined Operational Design Domain (ODD) and adherence to traffic regulations. This role requires a background in autonomous systems development or validation and a collaborative spirit to work effectively with diverse teams including Autonomy Software, Simulation, Product, and Operations. You will hold comprehensive ownership from defining requirements to designing metrics and developing test strategies.About the WorkEstablish requirements for the autonomous system to guarantee safe operation within its ODD and compliance with traffic laws.Develop metrics and acceptance criteria to confirm that the autonomous system meets these requirements, leveraging established safety standards and methodologies.Utilize a variety of testing strategies - synthetic and log simulations, on-road logs, closed-course tests, and third-party accident reconstructions - to validate requirements.Work closely with teams in Behavior, Perception, Data Science, Product, Legal, and Public Trust to formulate acceptance criteria for metrics and tests.Collaborate with simulation infrastructure and test integration teams to establish automated verification workflows.Assess the coverage of tests for our ODD, ensuring realism and relevance in simulations for deployment. Connect test outcomes as evidence supporting the Autonomy Safety Case.

Waymo is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on DevAI to help advance artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles. This position is based in Mountain View, CA. Role overview This role centers on designing and building AI solutions that support Waymo's self-driving technology. Collaboration with teams across engineering, product, and research will be a core part of daily work. The goal is to strengthen AI capabilities and improve system performance. What you will do Design and develop AI-driven features for autonomous vehicle systems Work closely with colleagues from different disciplines to integrate and refine AI models Contribute to the ongoing improvement of system performance and reliability Impact This position plays a key part in shaping how AI supports the future of transportation at Waymo.

P-188 At Databricks, we are on a mission to fundamentally transform the data lifecycle, simplifying processes from data ingestion to ETL, Business Intelligence (BI), and extending to Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) through a unified platform. We envision a future where traditional data warehouse architectures are replaced by innovative solutions like the Lakehouse architecture (CIDR 2021 paper), which integrate data warehousing and advanced analytics, effectively addressing critical challenges such as data staleness, reliability, cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support. To turn this vision into reality, we are developing a next-generation decoupled query engine and structured storage system designed to surpass specialized data warehouses in relational query performance while maintaining the versatility of general-purpose systems like Apache Spark™. This system is intended to support a wide array of workloads, from ETL processes to data science applications. As a member of our team, you will engage in one or more of the following areas, contributing to the design and implementation of cutting-edge systems that redefine industry standards: Query compilation and optimization Distributed query execution and scheduling Vectorized execution engine Data security measures Resource management strategies Transaction coordination processes Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes) Automatic physical data optimization techniques

At Waymo, we are pioneers in autonomous driving technology, striving to become the most trusted driver in the world. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, our focus has always been on developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access while significantly reducing traffic-related fatalities. With over ten million rider-only trips powered by our technology, which has autonomously navigated over 100 million miles on public roads across 15+ U.S. states, we are committed to leading the future of transportation.Join our innovative engineering team dedicated to advancing the in-car experience. Our projects encompass the Pick Ups and Drop Offs (PUDO) experience, as well as infotainment options like music, games, and maps during passenger journeys. You will work on user interfaces that allow customers to hail and manage our autonomous vehicles, creating complex user experiences and addressing unique human-computer interaction challenges in the AV domain.

Join our innovative team as a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Android development. In this crucial role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and enhance cutting-edge mobile applications that impact millions of users globally. Your expertise in Android technologies will drive the success of our projects and contribute to our mission of connecting professionals.

Waymo is at the forefront of autonomous driving technology, committed to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has dedicated itself to developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access while significantly reducing traffic-related fatalities. Our Waymo Driver powers a fully autonomous ride-hailing service and is adaptable to a diverse array of vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips and experience from more than 100 million miles driven autonomously on public roads, Waymo is shaping the future of transportation.Our simulation environment is among the most sophisticated ever created, utilizing deterministic logic, physical dynamics, and cutting-edge Generative AI to establish a training ground for the Waymo Driver. The Simulator Evaluation team tackles the challenging question: How can we mathematically validate that a virtual world is perceptibly 'real'?We are on the lookout for a Staff Software Engineer who will take on the role of Technical Architect in this field. You will operate at the intersection of software engineering and AI, ensuring our simulated environments—whether governed by explicit rules or foundational models—accurately reflect reality.In this Staff-level position, you will report directly to a Senior Staff Software Engineering Manager and function as a Technical Lead, connecting intricate technical metrics with overarching product strategies.Your Responsibilities Will Include:Architecting Evaluation Standards: Define the 'Definition of Done' for simulation realism, anticipating product objectives (e.g., operational capabilities in snow or highway driving) and designing the evaluation roadmap to ensure our simulation fidelity evolves in alignment with onboard requirements.Acting as the System Critic: Create comprehensive mathematical frameworks to validate our hybrid virtual world, determining the balance between diverse evaluation needs—from verifying logical rules and dynamics to assessing the distribution quality of generative AI models.Building at Scale: Lead the development of large-scale, extensible evaluation platforms (in C++/Python), ensuring our metric pipelines are robust distributed systems capable of delivering clear, reproducible insights on petabytes of data.Providing Strategic, Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the technical liaison across various organizations, closely collaborating with AI research and other simulation teams. The evaluation workflows you design will facilitate rapid innovation and inform research trajectories.

At Databricks, we are dedicated to empowering data teams to tackle the world's most challenging problems—from transforming the future of transportation to expediting medical breakthroughs. We achieve this by creating and managing the most advanced data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our customers to extract deep insights from data to drive business success. Founded by engineers with a strong customer focus, we eagerly embrace every opportunity to confront technical challenges, whether it’s designing next-generation UI/UX for data interfacing or scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we’re just getting started.The Logging Platform team is pivotal in developing scalable and efficient logging solutions that enhance observability across all Databricks services. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will spearhead the evolution of our logging infrastructure, empowering engineers throughout the company to gain profound insights into system behavior, troubleshoot issues efficiently, and optimize performance at scale.

About UsAt Aurora, our mission is to revolutionize transportation through safe and efficient self-driving technology, making it accessible to everyone.Explore the Aurora Driver and discover how we are paving the way for a new era in mobility and logistics.Join our team of dedicated professionals at Aurora, where you will engage in complex challenges and continuously enhance your expertise in a collaborative atmosphere. For updates, visit aurora.tech or connect with us on LinkedIn.We are on the lookout for a skilled and driven Staff Software Engineer to spearhead a new team focused on enhancing and modernizing our Offline Testing Infrastructure (OTI). OTI serves as a vital middle-layer infrastructure that supports our PR testing, test creation, and Verification & Validation (V&V) processes.This role is critical, with a strong emphasis on increasing the efficiency of our engineering teams and ensuring the reliability of our release cycles. The ideal candidate will build and lead a small, dedicated team to transition OTI to a stable, high-performance, and scalable platform.Responsibilities:Team Leadership: Act as the technical lead for the OTI team, guiding the strategic vision, execution, and long-term stability of our core infrastructure.Testing Ecosystem Development:Design a next-generation offline testing architecture that meets diverse team requirements, minimizes redundancy, and fosters collaboration across the organization.Collaborate with Test Creation and Test Drive teams to...

Join MatX in Revolutionizing AI Technologies At MatX, we are on a mission to enhance the efficiency of the world’s best AI models, propelling the advancement of AI quality and accessibility. We are looking for talented Silicon Verification Engineers to be part of our innovative team, dedicated to developing top-tier silicon solutions for high-performance and sustainable Generative AI. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the delivery of high-performance and functionally precise silicon for MatX products, encompassing compute, memory management, high-speed connectivity, and other pivotal technologies. Your Responsibilities: Contribute to the enhancement of MatX’s verification methodology, offering scalable solutions across blocks, subsystems, full chip, and system-level validation. Take ownership of verification execution at both subsystem and chip levels, developing testbenches, tests, and related artifacts to achieve structural and functional coverage closure. Plan and lead intermediate and sign-off reviews on verification test plans, track execution progress, and ensure verification closure in line with critical silicon milestones such as design freeze and tapeout. Who We Are Looking For: Experience in driving verification from architecture and/or design specifications through to production silicon. Proficiency in SystemVerilog, Python, C/C++, Bluespec, and similar scripting and programming languages for verification and silicon modeling. Hands-on experience with advanced verification methodologies like UVM and assertion-based verification (ABV); comfort with both formal and simulated verification is essential. Experience in creating portable tests and drivers for silicon validation and post-silicon debugging. Strong understanding of silicon micro-architecture and design concepts used in high-performance computing (CPUs, GPUs, accelerators), high-speed connectivity, memory management, and related functionalities. Familiarity with emulation and prototyping platforms and methodologies is advantageous. Hands-on experience in silicon debugging and bring-up will be considered a strong plus.

Harness is revolutionizing software delivery with its AI-driven platform, spearheaded by visionary technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, the founder of AppDynamics which was acquired by Cisco for $3.7B. With an impressive funding of approximately $570M and a valuation of $5.5B, we are backed by leading investors such as Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, and Citi Ventures. As AI transforms code creation, we recognize that the main bottleneck now lies in post-code processes—testing, deployment, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness harnesses AI and automation to streamline this crucial “outer loop,” empowering teams to deploy software at speed while ensuring robust security and governance throughout the software delivery lifecycle.Utilizing Harness AI and our Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform delivers deep contextual insights and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle, embedding governance and policy-driven controls throughout the platform.In the past year, Harness has facilitated over 185 million deployments, 82 million builds, 18 trillion flag evaluations, 8 million security scans, 9.1 billion optimized tests, and 3 trillion protected API calls while managing $2.8 billion in cloud expenditures. Our customers, including United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels, have experienced a remarkable acceleration in release speeds by up to 75% and reductions in cloud costs by up to 60%, achieving a tenfold increase in DevOps efficiency.With a diverse team distributed across 14 offices in 25 countries, Harness is at the forefront of shaping the future of AI software delivery—and we are on the lookout for exceptional talent to accelerate our journey.Position SummaryThis role falls under the AppSec Foundations charter, concentrating on the design and development of core authentication, authorization, and common services infrastructure that supports Harness's security ecosystem. The team is tasked with constructing foundational Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) systems, implementing service-to-service authentication, audit logging, and common security services to facilitate secure access across all Harness modules, including the AppSec Platform, CI/CD, and other offerings.The Foundations team acts as the security cornerstone for Harness’s multi-product platform, providing vital authentication and authorization services that guarantee secure, scalable access management throughout the software delivery lifecycle.