Waymo · 2 days ago
Onboard Developer Platform Software Engineer
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$170K/yr - $216K/yr
3+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on building the Waymo Driver to improve mobility and save lives. The role involves developing reliable and scalable systems to enhance developer productivity for onboard engineers, including optimizing simulation and evaluation platforms.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Develop reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems to meet user needs, including accelerating large-scale simulation and eval, reinforcement learning-based fine-tuning pipeline, and analysis
Evolve and scale up the simulation and evaluation platform to accelerate the 'inner loop' of software development by 10X for onboard engineers (500+)
Develop the ADV's modular architecture and frameworks to achieve low latency, high reproducibility and realism when simulating in our data centers, while maintaining high performance for on-car driving
Optimize system resource usage to simulation at scale in Cloud datacenters: minimizing CPU utilization and latency, minimizing RAM consumption, intelligently determining which computations should happen on CPU, GPU, and TPU
Collaborate to resolve compute performance bottlenecks throughout the ADV, simulator and analysis software stacks, ensuring end-to-end low latency for simulation and analysis
Develop necessary high scale performance evaluation, debugging and software change management processes
Qualification
Required
BS in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
3 years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar roles
3 years of experience in C++
2 years of experience working on a large-scale/high complexity system (supported by hundreds of engineers)
2 years of experience working on infrastructure work: building performant, easy to use, scalable systems and tools
Preferred
2 years in infrastructure/systems/performance domain optimizing end-to-end system for high performance
2 years of experience optimizing software systems using profile guided techniques
Experience in large-scale evaluation techniques
Experience in large-scale software re-architecture projects
Experience in ML pipelines and workflows
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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