Staff Software Engineer, Driver Validation

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Warsaw, Poland Until 8/21/2026 6+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted May 28, 2026 Last posted May 28, 2026
Job description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. 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, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Join our Waymo Commercialization team, and help us design the future of transportation! We are looking for a passionate Staff SWE who wants to help build the systems that improve Waymo's core ride hailing and fleet management systems.

You will work on cross-cutting problems to require cross-team collaboration, both technically (mobile app, cloud backends, and the Waymo Driver) and functionally (operations, product, legal, partnerships, policy & privacy) to develop and deliver business critical infrastructure.

In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.

You will:

  • Help build and evolve mission-critical horizontal infrastructure and tooling that underpins all commercialization systems
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams to develop systems and processes as business needs grow and evolve
  • Scale our systems to meet the demands of commercial expansion and growing complexity
  • Solve hard, real-world problems such as world simulation for regression testing and evaluation of software services managing fleets for autonomous vehicles

You have:

  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ years of backend or infrastructure experience

We prefer:

  • Experience with C++ (or a willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge)
  • Experience working in environments including nontechnical team members
  • Experience with operations tooling, developer productivity, or developer tools

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About this role

Summary

Develop core systems for Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing technology and fleet management.

Job title

Staff Software Engineer, Driver Validation

Experience level

6+ years

Minimum experience

6+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Warsaw, Poland; hybrid work model allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

BS degree in computer science6+ years backend experienceC++

Preferred skills

experience with C++nontechnical team experienceoperations tooling

Specializations

backendinfrastructureautonomous vehiclescloud
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Warsaw, Poland

Hybrid City