Build privacy-first iOS applications across a broad product suite, shipping UI-heavy features while shaping mobile architecture, engineering quality, and technical practices across teams.
Staff iOS Engineer, Growth
📜 Description
- Define the long-term iOS architecture roadmap, keeping the codebase modular, performant, and scalable.
- Own foundational frameworks for networking, authentication, and local data persistence.
- Lead technical design reviews and champion Swift development, Swift Concurrency, and UI performance best practices.
- Mentor senior engineers and help them navigate complex technical challenges.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and vehicle or robotics engineers to build user-facing products.
🛠️ Requirements
- B.S, or M.S. in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of experience building and shipping mobile apps from scratch using best practices
- Experience with SwiftUI in a production environment
- Passion and experience building user-facing products
- Experience partnering with product managers, designers, vehicle or robotics engineers
- Focus on pixel-perfect UI
- Client-server protocols (gRPC, Protobuf)
- Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE
- Test-driven development
- Experience building and releasing on the iOS App Store
✨ Benefits
- Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
- Equity incentive plan.
- Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Full job description
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.
Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you're a software engineer or researcher who's curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you.
You Will
- Lead technical strategy: Define the long-term architectural roadmap for the iOS platform, ensuring our codebase is modular, performant, and ready to scale as we launch in new cities.
- Build and own key infrastructure: Own the foundational frameworks for networking, authentication, and local data persistence, ensuring they are optimized for performance and modularity.
- Drive engineering excellence: Set the bar for Swift development, conducting deep technical design reviews (RFCs) and championing best practices in Swift Concurrency and UI performance.
- Mentor and grow: Guide senior engineers on the team, helping them navigate complex technical challenges and elevate their architectural thinking.
You Have
- B.S, or M.S. in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of experience building and shipping mobile apps from scratch using best practices
- Experience with SwiftUI in a production environment
- Passion and experience building user-facing products
- Experience partnering with product managers, designers, vehicle or robotics engineers
- Focus on pixel-perfect UI
- Client-server protocols (gRPC, Protobuf)
- Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE
- Test-driven development
We Prefer
- Experience building and releasing on the iOS App Store
- Experience with UIKit, CoreAnimation, and other iOS libraries
- Experience with C++
#LI-Hybrid
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.
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