# Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Optimization at Waymo

- Company: Waymo
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco, CA ; Mountain View, CA
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Skills: CSI (7LV)
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8164291

## Description

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.
 You will: 
• Algorithm development, system design, and software implementation to solve multi-disciplinary problems at the intersection of computer science, optimization, and fleet management.
• Instrument systems and analyze complex datasets in order to understand behaviors, troubleshoot problems, identify opportunities, and evaluate hypotheses and counterfactual scenarios.
• Evaluate and reason about optimization and forecasting system performance, including sensitivity to inputs, fidelity of output actuations, and interactions with other automated and human systems.
• Build, evolve, own, and operate mission-critical tools and systems responsible for the continuous optimization of fleet operations.
• Collaborate with Depot Operations, Product, UX, Data Science, and other Engineering teams to develop and improve automated systems, operational processes, and documentation as business n

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