Lead AI Agent Architect, DUE Experience

Waymo LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 251,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Company benefits package

Job summary

Waymo LLC is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the design and development of advanced Agentic AI systems. You will build multi-agent orchestration, tool integration, and stateful infrastructure to augment Waymo Driver evaluation workflows.

The role requires 8+ years in software engineering, deep LLM expertise, and strong prompt engineering. Collaboration across teams and mentorship of engineers are essential, with production-grade microservices experience valued.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience designing large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in applied LLMs and agentic AI development.
• Proficiency with agent orchestration frameworks and advanced prompt engineering.
• Ability to drive end-to-end AI-native applications in ambiguous domains.
• Excellent communication to align cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and hands-on development of advanced Agentic AI systems, focusing on multi-agent orchestration, tool execution, and complex reasoning loops.
• Engineer scalable agentic workflows using modern LLM orchestration frameworks to automate triage capabilities.
• Design and deploy stateful agentic infrastructure including memory management and semantic routing.
• Collaborate with partners to embed autonomous agents into Waymo Driver evaluation lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers on agentic development patterns and prompt engineering.
• Tackle broad automation problems by breaking them into actionable multi-agent projects and leading execution.

Skills

Agentic AI development

Applied LLMs

LLM orchestration frameworks

Prompt engineering

Distributed systems

C++

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's or PhD in CS/AI (preferred)

Tools

LLM orchestration frameworks

Semantic routing

Internal tools/plugins

Production-grade microservices

Knowledge graphs

Job description

Waymo LLC is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the design and development of advanced Agentic AI systems. You will build multi-agent orchestration, tool integration, and stateful infrastructure to augment Waymo Driver evaluation workflows.

The role requires 8+ years in software engineering, deep LLM expertise, and strong prompt engineering. Collaboration across teams and mentorship of engineers are essential, with production-grade microservices experience valued.