Staff Software Engineer, Chassis

Waymo is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Chassis in Warsaw, Poland. Level rates it ; you can apply on Waymo.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this software engineer role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Some of the work can be done remotely, according to the posting.
The posting mentions C, backend and infrastructure among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Waymo has 368 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Build and evolve mission-critical horizontal infrastructure and tooling supporting Waymo's commercialization systems and fleet management.

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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.

Join our Waymo Commercialization team, and help us design the future of transportation! We are looking for a passionate Staff SWE who wants to help build the systems that improve Waymo's core ride hailing and fleet management systems.

You will work on cross-cutting problems to require cross-team collaboration, both technically (mobile app, cloud backends, and the Waymo Driver) and functionally (operations, product, legal, partnerships, policy & privacy) to develop and deliver business critical infrastructure.

In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.

You will:

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

You have:

BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
6+ years of backend or infrastructure experience

We prefer:

Experience with C++ (or a willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge)
Experience working in environments including nontechnical team members
Experience with operations tooling, developer productivity, or developer tools

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How we rate this

Staff Software Engineer, Chassis at Waymo rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Staff Software Engineer, Chassis is an open job at Waymo.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Warsaw, Poland and is marked remote.
The job was posted on June 2, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Waymo. Apply on Waymo

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

BackendInfrastructureDistributed SystemsToolingC

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Pay

Typical software engineer job: $168k

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