About the role
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. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Software Tech Lead Manager. You will: Own and drive the roadmap for ML-powered pickup and dropoff features, from problem definition through launch, in partnership with PM, UX, data science, and other commercialization engineering teams Train, evaluate, and deploy ML models for occupancy detection, rider-vehicle interactions, pullover selection, and lost and found Design fallback systems that cascade between onboard and offboard models based on latency, confidence, and connectivity Build distributed systems that span vehicles, cloud services, and rider apps, and that handle intermittent and inconsistent connectivity well Work across the stack (data pipelines, model serving, backend services, and client integration) to ship end-to-en…