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Test Engineer, Collision Avoidance Coverage

CompanyWaymo
LocationMountain View
Work ModeOn Site
PostedFebruary 28, 2026
About The Company
On the journey to be the world's most trusted driver. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve mobility while saving thousands of lives. Download the Waymo One app and ride today. Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings. Need support? Send us a message – we're here to help.
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.

Waymo's Systems Engineering team works together to blend software and hardware systems in groundbreaking new ways. We set the high performance standards that ensure our vehicles run smoothly and keep passengers safe, then design and perform the tests that validate that performance. We're looking for talented teammates who’ll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results.

This role follows an in person work schedule and reports to a Lead Systems Test Engineer.  

You will:  

  • Own defining, requesting, tracking, and accepting collision avoidance scenarios that are critical to baselining and improving the Waymo Driver
  • Work with your internal team to understand what coverage exists, and as Waymo expands, what new coverage is needed
  • Work across multiple partner teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood, resources are properly allocated, timelines are met, and resulting outputs quality is high
  • Help define and understand the tradeoffs between various next-generation scenario creation technologies 
  • Build a framework/tooling to ensure traceability across all steps of the pipeline and decrease friction

You have: 

  • 3+ years of experience in tech, automotive, systems/test engineering, or other relevant fields where you have demonstrated a strong positive impact
  • A proven track record of working in dynamic environments while delivering excellent work on complex topics
  • A results-oriented mindset and a love of working across multiple teams, wrangling complex and ambiguous requirements, and delivering quality outputs
  • Basic coding abilities for building, editing, and maintaining data analytics tools and pipelines (Python and/or SQL)
  • Solid intuition about vehicle dynamics, physics/kinematics, and mathematics fundamentals
  • Stellar organization and collaboration skills 

We prefer: 

  • Large datasets / databases organization and maintenance 
  • An Autonomous Vehicle background 
  • Background in Simulation 
  • Vehicle test track or similar real-world experience 

 

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. 

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. 

Salary Range
$158,000—$200,000 USD
Key Skills
Collision AvoidanceData AnalyticsPythonSQLVehicle DynamicsPhysicsKinematicsMathematicsOrganizationCollaboration
Categories
TechnologyEngineeringData & AnalyticsTransportationConsulting
Benefits
Annual Bonus ProgramEquity Incentive PlanGenerous Company Benefits Program
Job Information
📋Core Responsibilities
You will define and track collision avoidance scenarios critical to improving the Waymo Driver. Additionally, you will work with internal and partner teams to ensure requirements are met and outputs are of high quality.
📋Job Type
full time
💰Salary Range
$158,000 - $200,000
📊Experience Level
5-10
💼Company Size
3897
📊Visa Sponsorship
No
💼Language
English
🏢Working Hours
40 hours
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