Senior Software Engineer, In-field Behavior Response

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Salary

$204K-$259K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

99% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Software Engineer, In-field Behavior Response Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA) 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. Drive the future of autonomous driving by solving complex, on-road challenges across the behavior stack. In this high-visibility role, you'll have a broad view of Waymo's operations, from fleet management to release deployment, as you engineer scalable solutions for one of two critical domains. In Service Quality Reasoning, you will protect Waymo's brand across pickups, drop-offs, and compliance around emergency and civic vehicles. In Intersection & Pedestrian Reasoning the focus is mitigating safety risks in high-stakes environments. You will: - Deploy to rapidly triage and root cause an active in-field issue. Directly launches features across the onboard and offboard stack to mitigate or solve the in-field behavioral issues. - In terms of scope, we will be growing the SWEs to be most effective in Intersections/Peds

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