Staff Systems Test Engineer: Scale QA & Automation

Waymo; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentive plan

Generous benefits program

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a Systems Engineer for its Hybrid role in the Systems Engineering team. You will design scalable quality architecture, drive meta-quality assurance, and maintain test health across a vast scenario test database to ensure safety and reliability of the Waymo Driver platform.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, 8+ years in Test/QA/Software Development in Test or SRE, strong debugging and Python/C++ skills, and experience at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or other relevant technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in Test Engineering, QA Engineering, Software Development in Test, Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Operations or other equivalent experience.
• Excellent debugging and Python/C++ coding skills.
• Proficiency in SQL or other data analysis tools.
• Experience architecting testing programs at scale.
• Experience leading / driving test automation strategies.
• Ability to thrive in a high ambiguity, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Design Scalable Quality Architecture: Move the organization towards scalable QC (Quality Control) methodologies for test creation (e.g., statistical sampling, risk-based auditing, and automated validation). Be the primary architect of how we verify work at increased scale
• Manage meta-quality assurance: Develop and manage our meta-quality framework to drive overall test quality assurance. Build dashboards and identify opportunities to improve first-time accuracy and reduce rework rates
• Maintain test health: Drive increased automation in detection and resolution of test health issues identified in our vast scenario test database to keep quality / test uptime high
• Create the playbook: Develop the playbook for making maintenance adjustments at scale by leveraging tooling automation strategically while also partnering w/ SMEs to develop standards and guidelines that enable our vendor workforce to drive efficient resolution

Skills

Python

C++

SQL

Debugging

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or other relevant technical field

Job description

Waymo is seeking a Systems Engineer for its Hybrid role in the Systems Engineering team. You will design scalable quality architecture, drive meta-quality assurance, and maintain test health across a vast scenario test database to ensure safety and reliability of the Waymo Driver platform.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, 8+ years in Test/QA/Software Development in Test or SRE, strong debugging and Python/C++ skills, and experience at scale.