Senior Staff TL, Chassis

Waymo
Warsaw, Poland
On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for senior infrastructure engineers who lead simulation environments and drive cross-functional alignment in autonomous vehicle systems.

Best fit for

  • Senior engineers with experience in simulation environments and cross-functional leadership
    — “Experience with simulation environments”
  • Candidates with a background in building horizontal infrastructure for large-scale systems
    — “Help build and evolve mission-critical horizontal infrastructure and tooling”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a hybrid work arrangement with potential in-office requirements
    — “This Hybrid role reports to our Director of Engineering”
  • Candidates must have at least 6 years of backend or infrastructure experience
    — “6+ years of backend or infrastructure experience”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in leading simulation environments and infrastructure scaling
    — “You will lead the technical direction and implementation of a city-scale simulation environment”
  • Showcase cross-functional leadership and consensus-building in your resume and interviews
    — “Proven track record of driving strategic alignment and consensus across complex, cross-functional organizations”
  • Emphasize your ability to mentor and build high-performing engineering teams
    — “You will mentor a team of engineers to deliver a reliable, repeatable, and realistic testing environment”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • Build and evolve mission-critical horizontal infrastructure
Typical background
Backend or infrastructure experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Backend DevelopmentInfrastructure DesignCross-functional CollaborationTechnical LeadershipStrategic Alignment

Preferred

C++Operations ToolingDeveloper ProductivitySimulation Environments

Stack & domain

BackendInfrastructureCity-scale Simulation EnvironmentTesting FrameworksCross-functional AlignmentTest CoverageC++Operations ToolingDeveloper ProductivityDeveloper ToolsSimulation EnvironmentsTechnical LeadershipStrategic AlignmentConsensus BuildingCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkAutonomous DrivingSoftware DevelopmentTestingSimulation

About the role

Original posting from Waymo

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.

The Chassis team provides the foundational infrastructure and tools that enable the Waymo organization to release software frequently and with confidence. You will lead the technical direction and implementation of a city-scale simulation environment that serves as the centerpiece for Waymo's release validation process. As a Senior Staff Tech Lead Engineer, you will architect solutions for large-scale simulated environments, drive the migration to modern testing frameworks, and ensure cross-functional alignment to expand test coverage to include complex systems. You will mentor a team of engineers to deliver a reliable, repeatable, and realistic testing environment that mirrors production and shifts outage detection left.       

This Hybrid role reports to our Director of Engineering.

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    

5+ years of tech leadership experience    

Proven track record of driving strategic alignment and consensus across complex, cross-functional organizations    

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    

Experience with simulation environments    

Source: Waymo careers

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