Tech Lead, Self Driving Eval Infrastructure Senior Staff Software Engineer, TLM Staff Software Engineer, Multiverse Senior Staff Engineer, DevAI (AI)

Location: On-site in Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: $281,000–$356,000 USD annual base salary

Company

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology, including the Waymo Driver and fully autonomous ride-hail services.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and technical strategy for core data platforms, including a commercialization data lake and metrics portability and standardization systems.
• Establish data governance frameworks that improve metadata, lineage, quality, discoverability, and consistency.
• Improve data development workflows, developer productivity, and the effectiveness of data engineering and metrics development.
• Collaborate with Simulation, Onboard, Machine Learning, and Commercialization teams to define data contracts and technical solutions.
• Mentor senior engineers, guide critical technical decisions, and promote reliability, efficiency, and strong developer experience.

Requirements

• Experience setting technical vision, driving multi-quarter roadmaps, and delivering complex data projects for senior engineering teams.
• Extensive experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed data systems such as data lakes, lakehouses, data meshes, streaming platforms, or query engines.
• Deep expertise in data governance, metadata systems, data lineage, data quality, and data discoverability at scale.
• Experience designing data-centric APIs, schemas, and data contracts.
• Experience developing data pipelines and query engines, with proficiency in SQL and one of C++, Java, or Python.
• Ability to work on-site in Mountain View, California.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous vehicle operations, logistics, or ride-hailing data.
• Familiarity with Google data infrastructure and tools such as F1 Query, Napa, Flume, Plx, BigQuery, or Cloud Dataflow.

Culture & Benefits

• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
• Equity incentive plan, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Opportunity to influence autonomous driving safety, research, engineering, and commercialization through large-scale data platforms.