Staff Android Engineer, In-Car Experience
Required skills
- Android
- Kotlin
- Java
- Jetpack Compose
- Android Internals
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Quality
- Robustness
- Safety-Sensitive Systems
- UX/UI Designers
Nice to have
- Custom Android Builds
- Embedded Systems
- Pixel-perfect UI
- Fluid User Experiences
- Infotainment Systems
- Automotive Software Development
Role summary
We are seeking a Staff Android Engineer to join our team focused on developing the in-car experience for autonomous vehicles. This hybrid role involves building complex user interfaces, phone-to-vehicle communications, and solving novel human-computer interaction problems. You will create reliable Android components using modern technologies like Jetpack Compose, design software for in-car systems, and manage the full software development lifecycle with a focus on quality and robustness for safety-sensitive systems. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software development experience, 3+ years in Android development, proficiency in Kotlin or Java, and experience leading technical designs and mentoring engineers. Preferred experience includes Android platform development, infotainment systems, and performance optimization.
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.
We are building a team of engineers dedicated to further developing our in-car experience. Projects include the Pick Ups and Drop Offs (PUDO) experience, and Infotainment during passenger trips (music, games, maps). Our team works on the user interfaces used by customers to hail and control our autonomous vehicles. We build complex user experiences, phone-to-vehicle communications, and solve novel human-computer interaction problems in the AV space.
In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.
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The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Salary Range$251,000—$310,000 USDSample Waymo interview questions
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Design a data ingestion system
system designmedium - 2
Design a simulation-based regression detection system for code changes
system designhard - 3
Longest Substring with Two Distinct Characters Find the longest substring with at most two distinct characters. Input: s = "ccaabbb" Output: 5 Explanation: The substring "aabbb" contains exactly two distinct characters and has a maximum length of 5.
codingmedium - 4
Alien Dictionary Order Derive the alien dictionary order from a sorted list of alien words. Input: words = ["z","x","z"] Output: "" (Empty String) Explanation: The letter 'z' cannot come before 'x' and then suddenly after 'x', creating a cycle and making the dictionary invalid.
codingmedium - 5
Palindrome After Deleting One Character Determine if a string can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character. Input: s = "abc" Output: FALSE Explanation: Deleting any single character leaves either "ab", "bc", or "ac", none of which result in a valid palindrome.
codingmedium
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