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May 2026Waymo temporarily paused service in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Atlanta because of issues handling heavy rain and flooded roads; service later resumed with possible weather-related pauses.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Waymo is Alphabet’s autonomous-driving company, founded from Google’s self-driving car project. It develops and operates fully autonomous vehicles intended to make transportation safer, more accessible, and more sustainable. Its commercial footprint is centered on autonomous ride-hailing, with expansion into delivery and broader mobility partnerships.
Primary product
The Waymo Driver, an autonomous-driving system, commercialized primarily through Waymo One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service.
Founded
2009
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Team size
3,000–5,000
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Autonomous vehicles, robotaxis, artificial intelligence, mobility technology
Offices
Mountain View, California, United States
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Tokyo, Japan
London, United Kingdom
Business model
Direct-to-consumer autonomous ride-hailing through Waymo One
Business and fleet partnerships for autonomous mobility
Autonomous delivery partnerships
Licensing/technology and vehicle-platform partnerships
Funding
Stage
Late-stage/private, generating revenue; Series D reported in 2026
Total raised
$27.1B
Latest round
Series D / investment round · Feb 2026
Latest amount
$16B
Feb 2026 · Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital
Oct 2024
People & investors
Leadership
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Dmitri Dolgov
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Becky Bucich
Chief People Officer
Steve Fieler
Chief Financial Officer
Amar Mehta
Chief Legal Officer
Saswat Panigrahi
Chief Product Officer
Mauricio Peña
Chief Safety Officer
Satish Jeyachandran
Vice President, Engineering
Ryan McNamara
Vice President, Operations
Srikanth Thirumalai
Vice President, Onboard Software
Founders
Google self-driving car project founding team
Work & culture
Waymo describes a safety-first, mission-driven culture emphasizing ambitious problem solving, technical excellence, inclusive mobility, sustainability, community responsibility, and careful attention to operational detail.
Compensation
Waymo publicly signals competitive compensation and benefits through its careers materials, but a complete standardized compensation range was not established from the reviewed public sources.
Benefits
Professional development
Learning opportunities
Community engagement
Meaningful company gatherings
Internships for Bachelor’s, Master’s, MBA, and PhD candidates
Accessibility accommodations in hiring
Product & market
Pricing
Per-ride fares through the Waymo One app; prices vary by route, time, and market. Partner-channel pricing may be mediated through services such as Uber. No public enterprise price list was identified.
Differentiators
- —Fully autonomous, no human driver required for the commercial service
- —Long operating history originating in Google’s 2009 self-driving project
- —Integrated LiDAR, camera, radar, mapping, compute, and redundant safety architecture
- —Large-scale real-world operations and safety dataset
- —Commercial service operating across multiple U.S. metropolitan areas
- —Safety validation through simulation, closed-course testing, public-road miles, and published safety research
- —Alphabet backing and extensive capital resources
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $1B–$2B annually; a third-party company profile estimates $1.4B, but Waymo does not publicly report standalone revenue as a private Alphabet company.
Signals & risks
Other
Mar 2026NHTSA and NTSB investigations reportedly included vehicle behavior near school buses; San Francisco officials also raised concerns about stranded robotaxis and emergency-response interventions.
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Jul 2026Latest news
TechCrunch · Aug 2026
Waymo removed Dallas’s waitlist, while airport service remains in testing; the report also covered the earlier weather-related service pause.
Automotive News · Jul 2026
Waymo planned to end its exclusive robotaxi partnership with Uber, reflecting changing channel strategy and heightened competition.
TechCrunch · Mar 2026
Waymo reportedly reached 500,000 paid weekly rides across 10 U.S. cities, alongside continued regulatory scrutiny.
TechCrunch · Feb 2026
Waymo announced a $16B financing at a $126B post-money valuation to support expansion, including London and Tokyo.
Open Positions
395 jobs at Waymo
Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling
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Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USA
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