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Senior iOS Engineer

1/16/2026

You will design, build, and maintain core iOS libraries and components while improving application performance. Additionally, you will monitor production issues and collaborate with feature teams for technical support.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

1,001-5,000 employees

Language

English

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About The Company

On the journey to be the world's most trusted driver. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve mobility while saving thousands of lives. Download the Waymo One app and ride today. Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings. Need support? Send us a message – we're here to help.

About the Role

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.

In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.

You will:

Design, build, and maintain core iOS libraries and components.
Improve and optimize application performance, including battery consumption and memory usage.
Create and enhance tooling to improve developer workflows and overall productivity.
Monitor and resolve production issues and performance bottlenecks.
Collaborate closely with feature teams to provide technical support.

You have:

B.S, or M.S. in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
4+ 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.
Solid understanding of the iOS SDK, iOS internals, and mobile development best practices.
Focus on pixel-perfect UI.
Client-server protocols (gRPC, Protobuf).

We prefer:

Experience building and maintaining shared iOS libraries, SDKs, or components.
Experience with performance analysis, profiling, and optimization tools.
Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks.
Experience with C++

Key Skills

iOS DevelopmentSwiftUIMobile AppsPerformance OptimizationUser-Facing ProductsiOS SDKClient-Server ProtocolsC++Dependency InjectionProduction IssuesTechnical SupportCore LibrariesDeveloper WorkflowsBattery ConsumptionMemory UsagePixel-Perfect UI