Waymo
Staff Systems Test Engineer, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems
$230K–$284K
Mountain View, CA, USA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years in Test Engineering, QA Engineering, Software Development in Test, Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Operations, or other equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or another relevant technical field.
About the job
Architects scalable quality assurance and maintenance systems for simulation-based scenario testing used to evaluate autonomous driving safety and performance.
What you'll do
- Design scalable quality-control methods and meta-quality frameworks, including dashboards to improve accuracy and reduce rework.
- Automate detection and resolution of scenario test-health issues to maintain quality and uptime.
- Create standards and playbooks for large-scale maintenance, partnering with subject-matter experts and vendor teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or another relevant technical field.
- Excellent debugging and Python/C++ coding skills; proficiency in SQL or other data analysis tools.
- Experience architecting testing programs at scale and leading or driving test-automation strategies.
- Ability to thrive in a high-ambiguity, dynamic environment.
Nice to have
- Software development experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or similar.
- Familiarity with AQL (Acceptable Quality Limit) sampling or other statistical process-control methodologies, or Lean / Six Sigma process improvement.
Pay
$230,000 — $284,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, C++, SQL, AQL (Acceptable Quality Limit)
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