Waymo · 1 hour ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Efficiency
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$281K/yr - $356K/yr
6+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the Simulator Platform's efficiency efforts, focusing on optimizing performance and compute utilization across various engineering teams.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Develop Simulator's architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize performance and compute utilization
Evolve compute usage of simulation to enable continued scaling where the system runs efficiently in our data centers
Collaborate with evaluation and infrastructure teams to identify and improve compute performance bottlenecks across the stack
Design, build, and optimize the simulator to enable high throughput and high compute utilization for both single instance simulation and large scale simulations
Developing necessary high scale performance evaluation, debugging and software change management processes
Optimizing system resource usage to simulation at scale: minimizing CPU utilization and latency, minimizing RAM consumption, intelligently determining which computations should happen on CPU, GPU, and TPU
Qualification
Required
BS/MS in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Proven track record of setting technical vision, driving multi-quarter roadmaps, and delivering impactful data projects as a technical lead for senior engineering teams, with demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical designs, trade-offs, and strategies to diverse stakeholders, including senior leadership and partner engineering, data scientists, and product teams
6+ years experience on large scale or high complexity system
Solid software management experience in infrastructure/systems/performance domain optimizing end to end system for high performance metrics
Extensive experience acting as technical lead in performance/software infrastructure domain
Proficient in C++
Define roadmap/portfolio of projects optimizing for end results overall across all aspects of the problem space
Setup collaboration structures across team boundaries
Preferred
Experience in robotics
Experience in low level optimization techniques, frameworks (SIMD/CUDA) and ML performance/frameworks
Experience in large scale evaluation techniques/data science and building performance metrics/tooling
Experience in large scale software re-architecture projects
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
Annabel Chang
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