Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA
Posted about 3 months ago
or apply directly on Waymo's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Waymo's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Waymo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Waymo
- high 348 stale, 9 reposted of 353 open
- Hiring momentum
- 490 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Waymo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Waymo.
About this role
As the Principal Software Engineer for Onboard Field Response at Waymo, you will lead the engineering analysis and response to unexpected events encountered by the autonomous vehicle fleet. Your role involves improving the Onboard software architecture, developing robust systems, and managing oncall rotations to address driving issues. You will collaborate with organizational leaders and may also be involved in hiring additional engineers to enhance the team's capabilities.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Waymo as an employer.
What you need
- 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
- Experience organizing and running oncall rotations
- Organizational awareness, extremely collaborative, strong communication, focus on value add to the company and to the team
Nice to have
- Experience leading hybrid hardware/software production systems
- Experience leading teams who work on modern deep ML / large scale models
- Track record of bringing about change in 1000+ person engineering organizations
What you get
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
Worth weighing
- No specific information on the company's culture or team dynamics is provided
- The role involves significant responsibility and may require managing additional engineers
- The salary range is broad and depends on various factors, which may lead to uncertainty during negotiations
Summarised from Waymo's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Waymo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
More roles at Waymo
- International Standardization Lead (Staff Researcher)London, England, United Kingdom
- Technical Program Manager, Vehicle SecurityNovi, Michigan, United States
- Senior Software Engineer, Internal ToolingMountain View, CA, US
- Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation RealismMountain View, CA, USA
- Tech Lead Manager ML OptimizationMountain View, California, United States
- Machine Learning Engineer Perception LLM/VLM (PhD, New Grad)Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA;
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision-Language Foundation ModelsMountain View, California, United States
- Tech Lead Manager- Onboard Software PerformanceMountain View, CA, USA