Lead Performance Architect, Onboard Software (Hybrid)

Waymo LLC; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 238,000 - 302,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity plan

Benefits program

Job summary

Waymo LLC is seeking an experienced software engineering leader for the Onboard Software Performance team. The role emphasizes optimizing performance across car and data-center simulation, guiding architecture, and collaborating with hardware and onboard teams.

You will drive end-to-end performance improvements, lead complex projects, and ensure latency targets meet safety and reliability standards while operating in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 6 years of software engineering experience on large scale/high complexity systems (hundreds of engineers)
• 2 years of software management experience with at least 4 years in infrastructure/systems/performance domain
• 4 years of experience acting as technical lead in performance/software infrastructure domain
• 4 years of experience in C++

Responsibilities

• Develop ADV's modular architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize performance and compute utilization and ROI for driving quality
• Evolve compute usage on the car and simulation to enable scaling where the system runs fast on the car and efficiently in data centers
• Collaborating with onboard teams to identify and improve compute performance bottlenecks across the stack
• Collaborating with hardware teams to codesign hardware/software and optimize software for best performance on our hardware platform
• Ensuring performance is strong at driving complexity and when scaling to more complex environments and rarer events
• Ensuring fast reaction latency for collision avoidance via novel architecture designs
• Developing high-scale performance evaluation, debugging and software change management processes
• Optimizing system resource usage to simulation at scale in Cloud datacenters: minimizing CPU/GPU/TPU usage and RAM

Skills

C++

Performance engineering

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Large-scale systems

Cloud computing

Collaboration

Education

BS/MS in CS/EE/Robotics/Physics/Math

Tools

SIMD

CUDA

Job description

Waymo LLC is seeking an experienced software engineering leader for the Onboard Software Performance team. The role emphasizes optimizing performance across car and data-center simulation, guiding architecture, and collaborating with hardware and onboard teams.

You will drive end-to-end performance improvements, lead complex projects, and ensure latency targets meet safety and reliability standards while operating in a hybrid work environment.