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# Staff Systems Test Engineer, Scenario Quality and Maintenance Systems

- **Company:** Waymo LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $230,000.0 - $284,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, C++ (Programming Language), Databases, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Statistical Process Control (SPC), SQL Databases, Information Technology, Software Coding
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5831687786

## About the Role

* A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or other relevant technical field
 * 8+ years of experience in Test Engineering, QA Engineering, Software Development in Test, Site Reliability Engineering, Technical Operations or other equivalent experience
 * Excellent debugging and Python/C++ coding skills
 * Proficiency in SQL or other data analysis tools
 * Experience architecting testing programs at scale
 * Experience leading / driving test automation strategies
 * Ability to thrive in a high ambiguity, dynamic environment

We prefer:

 * Experience with software development for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or similar
 * Familiarity with AQL (Acceptable Quality Limit) sampling or other statistical process control methodologies
 * Experience with Lean / Six Sigma process improvement methodologies

## Description

Waymo is undergoing unprecedented growth, rapidly expanding into new cities (targeting ~20 new cities by EOY 2026) and launching new vehicle platforms. Scenario Ops plays a critical role in this expansion, making it possible to scale safely and efficiently. The team owns the scaled delivery and maintenance of simulation-based directed testing coverage used to evaluate the Safety and performance of the driver as Waymo continues to scale.

In this hyrbid role, you will be reporting to a Staff Program Manager

You will:

 * Design Scalable Quality Architecture: Move the organization towards scalable QC (Quality Control) methodologies for test creation (e.g., statistical sampling, risk-based auditing, and automated validation). Be the primary architect of how we verify work at increased scale
 * Manage meta-quality assurance: Develop and manage our meta-quality framework to drive overall test quality assurance. Build dashboards and identify opportunities to improve first-time accuracy and reduce rework rates
 * Maintain test health: Drive increased automation in detection and resolution of test health issues identified in our vast scenario test database to keep quality / test uptime high
 * Create the playbook: Develop the playbook for making maintenance adjustments at scale by leveraging tooling automation strategically while also partnering w/ SMEs to develop standards and guidelines that enable our vendor workforce to drive efficient resolution