Job brief: Staff Systems Engineer, Depot & Offhail Automation

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• Listed on Waymo's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $230,000 to $284,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680) · San Francisco (US-SFO-MKT555)
• Posted: 2026-09-01 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or other technical field
• At least 8 years of experience in systems engineering, software development, or related field

Conditions

• This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Systems Engineering Lead.

Main duties

• Work with cross functional teams including software engineers, product managers, and operations leads to develop and implement requirements, system architect…
• Develop deep technical understanding of existing and new depot & offhail automation features and drive a robust end-to-end verification and monitoring system…
• Develop qualification methods to launch new features and depots and provide engineering recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Debug field issues to determine root cause and identify solutions with cross functional teams. Be the point person for retrospectives and implement improveme…
• Extend existing depot automation features to new vehicle platforms to ensure feature parity across the diverse Waymo fleet.

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• Across Waymo's 313 open listings, 52% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Waymo hires

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