Waymo
Senior Software Engineer, Eval Authoring APIs
$213K–$263K
Mountain View,CA, USA +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 25, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View,CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience focused on backend systems or APIs.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Designs and implements foundational APIs and services that let evaluation engineers create, manage, validate, test, publish, and execute evaluation workflows at scale.
What you'll do
- Drive the architecture and implementation of core authoring API services.
- Collaborate with evaluation, simulation, and analysis infrastructure teams to define API contracts and deliverables.
- Ensure APIs are reliable, efficient, and representative of real-world evaluation complexity; mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience focused on backend systems or APIs.
- Experience building scalable distributed systems and developer-facing APIs, and owning large features from design to deployment.
- Expertise in systems design and data modeling for high-throughput, low-latency applications; strong proficiency in C++ or Python.
Nice to have
- Experience designing API-centric systems for internal developer platforms or tools.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; familiarity with evaluation or machine learning systems.
Pay
$213,000 — $263,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python
AI focus
Supports evaluation workflows, including familiarity with evaluation or machine learning systems as a preferred qualification.
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