Waymo · 4 hours ago
Senior Onboard Software Performance Engineer (C++)
Mountain View, California
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$204K/yr - $259K/yr
5+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking a Senior Onboard Software Performance Engineer to ensure systems meet strict performance requirements while collaborating with onboard and hardware teams to optimize performance and resource usage.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Report into the Manager of Onboard Software Performance
Develop ADV's modular architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize performance and compute use and ROI for driving quality
Evolve our compute usage on the car and simulation to promote continued scaling where the system runs fast on the car and in our data center
Collaborate with onboard teams to identify and improve compute performance bottlenecks across the stack to improve performance/driving quality
Collaborate with hardware teams to codesign hardware/software and improve the software for best performance on our hardware platform
Ensure reaction latency for collision avoidance with and help design novel system/architecture for extremely fast nominal performance
Develop necessary high scale performance evaluation, debugging and software change management processes
Improve system resource usage to simulation at scale in Cloud datacenters: minimizing CPU use and latency, minimizing RAM usage, intelligently determining which computations should happen on CPU, GPU, and TPU
Qualification
Required
BS in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
5 years of experience as a software engineer or similar roles
5 years of experience in C++
5 years of experience optimizing software using profile guided techniques
Preferred
2 years in infrastructure/systems/performance domain optimizing end-to-end systems
2 years of experience working on a large-scale/high complexity system (supported by hundreds of engineers)
Experience in robotics
Experience in low-level optimization techniques, frameworks (SIMD/CUDA) and ML performance/frameworks
Experience in evaluation techniques
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
$27.1BKey Investors
Dragoneer Investment Group,DST Global,Sequoia CapitalAlphabetFidelity,Perry Creek Capital,T. Rowe Price
2026-02-02Series D· $16B
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Annabel Chang
Director of U.S. State and Local Public Policy and Political Campaigns
Recent News
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