Senior Staff Engineer, Agentic AI Engineering

What this role involves

This role is for a Senior Staff Engineer on the Planner Evaluation team at Waymo, focusing on designing, building, and deploying production-grade agentic AI systems to solve complex evaluation challenges for autonomous driving. The engineer will develop automated evaluation frameworks and metrics to measure the accuracy, safety, and reliability of non-deterministic AI agents. The position requires deep expertise in AI/ML, autonomous agents, and large-scale software engineering, with a hybrid work arrangement.

Skills this posting asks for

• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• autonomous agents
• multi-agent orchestration
• llm integration
• c++
• knowledge graphs
• reasoning engines
• autonomous vehicle simulation
• evaluation frameworks
• agentic frameworks
• software engineering
• large-scale systems
• production-grade systems
• automated evaluation
• data science
• api development
• google ai/ml platforms
• waymo internal platforms

Requirements

• 7 years of experience
• Level: staff
• Remote policy: hybrid

From the employer’s posting

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 acce…