Staff Systems Engineer, Depot & Offhail Automation
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The roles on this page sit across two broad clusters. One group is centred on autonomous vehicle infrastructure: building depot and offhail automation features, defining requirements and validation strategy for sensors, compute, and motion control, or maintaining fleet response and simulation infrastructure. A Staff Systems Engineer at Waymo would work with software engineers, product managers, and operations teams on architecture and verification, reading C++ and writing SQL queries. A Senior/Staff Systems Engineer at Nuro covers a platform area such as localization or latency, defining test coverage across simulation and road testing alongside hardware and vendor teams.
The second cluster focuses on AI and cloud infrastructure. Nuro's AI Agent Infrastructure role involves building closed-loop evaluation systems and agent runtime safety layers for autonomous AI agents. A related applied AI role owns measurement layers and automated research loops using Python and distributed systems. On the cloud side, Microsoft's Principal Software Engineer works on Kubernetes, networking, observability, and service lifecycle management, while the Principal AI Platform Engineer builds model serving, orchestration, and retrieval APIs for Copilot.
Skill counts reflect mentions in posting descriptions across the full set of postings on this page, not formal requirements. C++ and Python appear in the majority of postings, suggesting they are broadly relevant, though a posting may mention a skill as context rather than a strict prerequisite. Advanced degrees appear in a notable share of postings, but whether they are required or preferred varies by role and is worth checking individually.
The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels — not an average and not a market rate.
All postings on this page state either onsite or hybrid arrangements; none are listed as fully remote. Hybrid arrangements account for a substantial share, with the remainder explicitly onsite. No posting has an unknown work mode. The Microsoft postings note a San Francisco Bay Area location broadly, while Waymo and Nuro roles are associated with Mountain View operations. Candidates should confirm exact office expectations with each employer, as hybrid policies and their practical meaning differ between organisations and are not uniformly detailed in these postings.
Jobs checked 18 hours ago. · Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.
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