Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response

Job Summary

The Onboard Field Response Lead at Waymo is responsible for leading the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare, or unexpected events encountered by the Waymo Driver in the field. This role involves organizing and participating in oncall rotations, hardening software, developing playbooks, improving oncall metrics, and enhancing the robustness of the software system running inside the autonomous vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Organize and participate in oncall rotations for responding to driving issues in the field.
• Harden software, develop playbooks, improve oncall metrics and post-mitigation workstreams, and improve robustness of the software system running inside the autonomous vehicle.
• Lead the engineering analysis and response to novel, rare or unexpected events encountered by the fleet in the field.
• Partner with organization leads and others across the Onboard organization to improve large-scale software engineering best practices.
• Contribute to Onboard software architecture to help improve its robustness and debuggability.
• If needed, request, hire, and manage additional engineers to contribute to the above responsibilities.

Requirements

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience leading large-scale production software systems, especially machine learned systems
• 5+ years of experience as an organizational leader, managing a group of people and partnering with other organizational leaders
• Excellent influence without authority skills
• Organizational awareness, extremely collaborative, strong communication, focus on value add to the company and to the team

Preferred

• Experience leading hybrid hardware/software production systems
• Track record of bringing about change in 1000+ person engineering organizations