Staff Systems Test Engineer, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems

Why This Team Is Essential To Waymo's Success

The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabling it to autonomously drive over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Scenario Ops plays a critical role in Waymo's expansion, making it possible to scale safely and efficiently.

Design Scalable Quality Architecture

• Move the organization towards scalable QC methodologies for test creation (e.g., statistical sampling, risk-based auditing, and automated validation)
• Be the primary architect of how we verify work at increased scale

Manage Meta-Quality Assurance

• Develop and manage our meta-quality framework to drive overall test quality assurance
• Create dashboards and identify opportunities to improve first-time accuracy and reduce rework rates

Maintain Test Health

• Drive increased automation in detection and resolution of test health issues identified in our vast scenario test database to keep quality/test uptime high

Create the Playbook

• Develop the playbook for making maintenance adjustments at scale by leveraging tooling automation strategically while also partnering with SMEs to develop standards and guidelines that enable our vendor workforce to drive efficient resolution

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or other relevant technical field
• 8+ years of experience in Test Engineering, QA Engineering, Software Development in Test, Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Operations or other equivalent experience
• Excellent debugging and Python/C++ coding skills
• Proficiency in SQL or other data analysis tools
• Experience architecting testing programs at scale
• Experience leading/driving test automation strategies
• Ability to thrive in a high ambiguity, dynamic environment

Prior Experience

• Experience with software development for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or similar
• Familiarity with AQL (Acceptable Quality Limit) sampling or other statistical process control methodologies
• Experience with Lean/Six Sigma process improvement methodologies

Pay

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level.