Senior Staff Tech Lead: Large-Scale Simulation

Waymo; Warsaw (KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a Senior Staff Tech Lead Engineer to architect large-scale simulated environments for release validation of its autonomous vehicle software. The role focuses on migrating to modern testing frameworks, expanding test coverage, and aligning across teams to mirror production conditions.

You will mentor engineers to deliver reliable testing ecosystems and drive improvements that reduce outages and accelerate validation. This hybrid role reports to the Director of Engineering.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend or infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years of tech leadership experience.
• Proven track record of driving strategic alignment and consensus across complex, cross-functional organizations.
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Help build and evolve mission-critical horizontal infrastructure and tooling that underpins all commercialization systems.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to develop systems and processes as business needs grow and evolve.
• Scale our systems to meet the demands of commercial expansion and growing complexity.
• Solve hard, real-world problems such as world simulation for regression testing and evaluation of software services managing fleets for autonomous vehicles.

Skills

Backend/infrastructure experience

Tech leadership

Cross-functional alignment

Problem solving

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

C++

Simulation environments

Developer tooling

Operations tooling

Job description

Waymo is seeking a Senior Staff Tech Lead Engineer to architect large-scale simulated environments for release validation of its autonomous vehicle software. The role focuses on migrating to modern testing frameworks, expanding test coverage, and aligning across teams to mirror production conditions.

You will mentor engineers to deliver reliable testing ecosystems and drive improvements that reduce outages and accelerate validation. This hybrid role reports to the Director of Engineering.