
Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—stands for a new way forward in mobility. Our mission is to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.

Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—stands for a new way forward in mobility. Our mission is to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.
Core business: Autonomous driving technology and operator of Waymo One (fully autonomous ride-hailing service)
Ownership: Majority-owned by Alphabet
Recent fundraising: $16B investment round announced Feb 2026; $5.6B Series C in Nov 2024
Scale: Millions of autonomous miles driven and 20M+ rides served
Headcount (approx.): ~3,000 employees
Autonomous vehicle technology, robotaxi operations, and commercial deployment of self-driving systems.
2016
Autonomous vehicles / Mobility
$16 billion
Alphabet remained majority investor; round valued Waymo at $126B post-money (company statement)
$5.6 billion
Round announced in November 2024
“Round led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital with Alphabet as majority investor; participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Mubadala Capital, Bessemer, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price”
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES FULL-TIME SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 3631 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states. TaaS (Transportation as a Service) is responsible for building an amazing user experience and business around the Waymo Driver. We are responsible collectively for Growth, Territory Expansion, Service Quality (including pickup, dropoff and routing), Marketplace (pricing, positioning, matching), and Partnerships / B2B(2C) monetization. Marketplace team builds the core economic engine for Waymo’s commercialization services. - Implement and scale the core economic engine for Waymo's ride-hailing commercial services. This collection of systems manages trip requests; matches right vehicles to riders; calculates the price of rides; positions Waymo’s vehicle for future demands. - Developing infrastructure for automatically training and deploying sophisticated optimization and prediction ML models to make real-time decisions for pricing, matching, and positioning. - Developing experimentation, monitoring and analysis infrastructure for analyzing ongoing deployed models. - Partnering with product data scientists to develop and productionize pricing and matching models for Waymo - BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience - 4+ years of experience programming in backend coding languages - Experience in building backend distributed system - Experience in C++ - MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience - Experience in developing low latency, large-scale, user facing distributed systems - Experience in developing machine learning/optimization infrastructure and pipelines - Prior experience building and deploying ML / Optimization models into production environments - Experience at another Ride hailing or Marketplace company 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 $204,000—$259,000 USD