Waymo
waymo.com
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Ride Hailing
Smart Mobility
Autonomous Driving
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How Waymo hires
Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
76 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
46%
Reposted roles
0%
Waymo scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 143 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 46% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 76 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Visa sponsorship
- United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 331 · green card filings: 28
- United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)
Overview
Waymo is an American autonomous driving company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009 and became a standalone Alphabet subsidiary in 2016. It operates the largest fully driverless commercial ride-hailing service in the world through the Waymo One app, carrying paying passengers with no human in the vehicle across Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin and an expanding list of cities. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company builds its own sensor suite and the Waymo Driver software stack, integrates them into vehicles from partners such as Jaguar, Zeekr and Hyundai, and also develops autonomous trucking technology.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Waymo over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
199
Postings analysed
443
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
C++58%
Python54%
SQL29%
Java6%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch24%
JAX20%
TensorFlow17%
PyTorch C++14%
Databases
BigQuery2%
Google BigQuery2%
Google Cloud Spanner2%
Google Bigtable<1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux5%
Spark3%
GCP3%
CUDA Toolkit2%
AI & ML
LLM10%
VLM5%
Gemini1%
Gaussian Splatting1%
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Full Waymo tech stack
199 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$248k
Typical range
$86k – $431k
Open positions
312
305
Jobs
Intern
18%
Junior
2%
Middle
5.2%
Senior
33.8%
Staff
36.7%
Principal
0.7%
Architect
3.6%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 55 | $140k | $86k – $170k |
| Junior | 6 | $216k | $215k – $263k |
| Middle | 16 | $215k | $160k – $263k |
| Senior | 103 | $259k | $124k – $368k |
| Staff | 112 | $302k | $139k – $378k |
| Principal | 2 | $431k | $431k |
| Architect | 11 | $294k | $216k – $399k |
Highest paying role
Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Field Response
$431k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Waymo
By role, level and city, against the market · 312 jobs with pay
Products
Foundation Model
Waymo trains large multimodal models on its fleet driving data to improve perception and behaviour prediction. The research also feeds simulation used to validate new software releases.
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Via
Waymo Via applies the same autonomy stack to freight and local delivery. The trucking programme was scaled back to focus resources on ride-hailing.
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One
Waymo One is the consumer ride-hailing service offering fully driverless trips through a mobile app. It is the largest commercial robotaxi operation running without safety drivers.
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Driver
The Waymo Driver is the full autonomous driving system combining lidar, radar, cameras and the software that plans and executes every manoeuvre. It is designed to be integrated into vehicle platforms from multiple manufacturers.
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People
Sebastian Thrun
Founder of the Google Self-Driving Car Project
Sebastian Thrun started the Google self-driving car project in 2009 that became Waymo. He had previously led the Stanford team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge and went on to found Udacity and Kitty Hawk.
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Tekedra Mawakana is co-chief executive of Waymo and leads its commercial operations, policy and city expansion. She joined in 2017 after policy leadership roles at eBay and Yahoo.
Dmitri Dolgov
Co-Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer
Dmitri Dolgov is co-chief executive and chief technology officer of Waymo, and one of the original engineers on the Google self-driving project. He leads the development of the Waymo Driver.
Anthony Levandowski
Founding Engineer
Anthony Levandowski was a founding engineer on the Google self-driving car project and built its early lidar hardware. He left to found the trucking startup Otto, which triggered a landmark trade secrets case with Uber.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
67/100
Growing
Open positions
349
32 opened / 15 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
72 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
17% ▼
Backend
16%
Early Careers
14% ▲
Management
9%
Operations
5%
Field & Service
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Early Careers (+41 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added ROS2 to stack
Oct 2026
Added ROS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Pytest to stack
Oct 2026
Added RTOS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Test to stack
Oct 2026
Added Git to stack
Oct 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Oct 2026
Added Okta to stack
Oct 2026
Added IAM to stack
Oct 2026
Added Looker to stack
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Transfer Learning to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
35
Hiring now
23
Countries
12
Busiest office
Mountain View
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Mountain View
United States
HQ
Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)
278 open roles 256 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 2% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Early Careers
San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D
San Francisco (US-SFO-MKT555)
144 open roles 127 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 1% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $255k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Product
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
Los Angeles (US-LAX-GRAN2037)
26 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 77% engineering 200-500 est. staff $277k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Marketing
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
London (UK-LON-40BR)
14 open roles 19 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 200-500 est. staff $156k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, Early Careers, AI/ML
Tempe
United States
Support & operations
Tempe (US-TEM-WRT1033)
10 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 50-200 est. staff $202k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Operations, Networking
Warsaw
Poland
Engineering / R&D
Warsaw (PL-WAW-TFM)
9 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 78% engineering 11% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Management
Kirkland
United States
Engineering / R&D
Kirkland (US-KIR-6THD)
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 86% engineering 50-200 est. staff $286k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, DevOps, Industrial Engineering
Los Angeles
United States
Plant / site
Los Angeles (US-LAX-GRAN2037)
6 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff $252k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Field & Service, Product
Munich
Germany
Plant / site
Munich (DE-MUC-ARP)
6 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, Legal, Management
Tokyo
Japan
Support & operations
Tokyo (JP-TOK-STRM)
5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations, Backend, Management
Taipei
Taiwan
Engineering / R&D
Hsinchu (TW-ZBC-TYP)
5 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 80% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Hardware, Management
Pittsburgh
United States
Engineering / R&D
Pittsburgh (US-PIT-BAK)
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff $263k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend
Hyderabad
India
Corporate office
Hyderabad (IN-HYD-OMGB)
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Management, Sales
Hsinchu
Taiwan
Engineering / R&D
Hsinchu (TW-ZBC-TYP)
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Hardware
Seattle
United States
Regional office
Seattle (US-SEA-PKV)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $368k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Oxford
United Kingdom
Regional office
Oxford (UK-OXF-WOOD46)
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $170k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Singapore (SG-SIN-MBC2)
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
Phoenix
United States
Tempe (US-TEM-WRT1033)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $215k Avg Salary
hires for Networking
Bengaluru
India
Regional office
Bangalore (IN-BLR-BCPC)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend
Washington
United States
Regional office
Washington DC (US-WAS-CAP)
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $187k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
Austin
United States
Texas
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $215k Avg Salary
hires for Networking
Novi
United States
Regional office
Novi (US-DTW-MAG)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $242k Avg Salary
hires for Product
Sacramento
United States
Regional office
Sacramento
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff $218k Avg Salary
hires for Public Policy
Paris
France
Regional office
Paris (FR-PAR-RDL)
Shanghai
China
Regional office
Shanghai (CN-SHA-WFC)
Shenzhen
China
Regional office
Shenzhen (CN-SZX-HUG5001)
Berlin
Germany
Regional office
Berlin (DE-BER-TSKY2)
Chicago
United States
Regional office
Chicago (US-CHI-FLMK)
Madrid
Spain
Regional office
Madrid (ES-MAD-PIC)
Miami
United States
Regional office
Miami (US-MIA-1450)
Detroit
United States
Regional office
DO NOT USE - Detroit (US-DTW-HBK2020)
Toronto
Canada
Regional office
Toronto (CA-TOR-KING65)
Vista
United States
Regional office
Playa Vista (US-PLV-BLUFFS)
Atwater
United States
Regional office
Atwater (US-ATW-B175)
Ann Arbor
United States
Regional office
Ann Arbor (US-ARB-TRAV)
Jobs
$230k – $284k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Mountain View • San Francisco
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$230k – $284k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Mountain View
Python
JavaScript
Rest API
gRPC
GCP
IAM
Cybersecurity
Okta
Least Privilege
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$251k – $310k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Mountain View
Python
C++
TensorFlow C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
YOLO
Computer Vision
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Segment Anything
Anomaly Detection
SFT
Post-training
Machine Learning
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$251k – $310k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • Mountain View • New York
Python
C++
TensorFlow C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
Quantization
JAX
Knowledge Distillation
Diffusion Models
Transformers
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Flax
TPU
XLA
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
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$213k – $263k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Mountain View
Python
C++
AI Agents
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$175k – $215k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • Mountain View
Python
SQL
Spark
Feature Store
Machine Learning
Analytics
A/B Testing
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$204k – $259k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • Mountain View • New York
C++
LLVM
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
CUTLASS
DevOps
CI/CD
Linux
Game Dev
SPIR-V
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$213k – $263k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Mountain View
C++
Machine Learning
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≈ $264k – $539k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Master's Degree • Mountain View • San Francisco • Kirkland
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Post-training
Pre-training
arXiv
Machine Learning
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
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$140k per year • In office • Internship • Master's Degree • Mountain View
Python
SQL
C++
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$170k per year • In office • Internship • PhD • Mountain View
Python
JAX
TensorFlow
TensorBoard
Machine Learning
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$140k per year • In office • Internship • Master's Degree • Mountain View
Python
SQL
C++
TensorFlow C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
Spark
Embeddings
JAX
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
AI Agents
TensorFlow
PyTorch
RAG
Knowledge Graph
Machine Learning
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
Motion Planning
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Financials
Total raised
$31.4B
Latest round
Debt Financing
Funding rounds
5
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt Financing | 2026 | $5B | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $16B | $126B | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $5.6B | $45B | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | $2.5B | — | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | $2.3B | — |
Key Investors
Tiger Global Management
Tiger Global Management joined Waymo's 2021 funding round. The firm invests across late-stage private and public technology companies.
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Fidelity
Fidelity participated in Waymo's external rounds. The asset manager frequently anchors late-stage private financings in technology.
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Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz co-led Waymo's 2024 financing at a forty-five billion dollar valuation. The firm invests in autonomy and transport technology.
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Silver Lake
Silver Lake co-led Waymo's first external funding round in 2020. The firm makes large technology investments across private and public markets.
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Alphabet
Alphabet is Waymo's parent and largest investor, funding it directly and through every external round. The subsidiary structure lets outside capital participate without full consolidation of risk.
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