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What Waymo asks for in software and data roles at tech companies · Autonomous vehicles · 25 roles · 90 days to Oct 8, 2026

Updated

25 roles counted in the window, one per title and level; 148 postings open now.

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In short

At Waymo, software engineer roles are the largest group: 6 of 25 roles at tech companies in the 90 days to Oct 8, 2026, then machine learning engineer (4) and research scientist (4). Machine Learning is required most often, in 14 of 25 roles whose requirements we read, then Python (11) and C++ (10).

What the postings ask for

Out of the 25 roles whose requirements we could read, of 25 in all. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Machine Learning
14 of 25
Python
11 of 25
C++
10 of 25
PyTorch
6 of 25
SQL
6 of 25
Data Warehousing
4 of 25
Deep Learning
4 of 25
Open Source
4 of 25
Reinforcement Learning
4 of 25
Statistics
4 of 25
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
C++
3 of 25
Data Pipelines
2 of 25
Forecasting
2 of 25
Generative AI
2 of 25
Reinforcement Learning
2 of 25
AI
1 of 25
CI/CD
1 of 25
Capacity Planning
1 of 25
Cloud Native
1 of 25
Container Orchestration
1 of 25

Experience

Of the 24 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
24 of 24
2+ years
23 of 24
3+ years
20 of 24
5+ years
16 of 24
8+ years
4 of 24
10+ years
3 of 24

Degree

Of the 25 roles we could read for it

Required
12 of 25
Required, or experience instead
10 of 25
Preferred
0 of 25
Not mentioned
3 of 25

Pay as stated

Of the 25 roles we could read for it

Roles stating pay
25 of 25

Roles here

Open postings (148)

Newest first

The 20 newest of 148 open postings. Every one is on the jobs pages.

Source: Waymo careers (Greenhouse). Each posting opens our summary, with a link to the original.

How we count: 25 roles in the 90 days to Oct 8, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Methodology