ML Microarchitect: High-Performance Compute Core Designer

Waymo; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Equity incentives

Benefits program

Job summary

Waymo’s Compute Team is seeking a Senior Staff Silicon Engineer to help advance autonomous compute. The role blends hardware architecture with software interfaces to deliver high-performance ML features.

You will translate requirements, design microarchitectures, and optimize power and performance while collaborating with researchers, architects, and verification teams. Hybrid work in NY with strong engineering teamwork and impact.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience with SystemVerilog, RTL design and microarchitecture.
• 3+ years designing and specifying microarchitectures of high performance computing cores (CPU/GPU/NPU).
• Fluency in at least one high level programming language such as Python, C++.

Responsibilities

• Translate high level requirements into hardware features.
• Specify and design microarchitectures to deliver world class ML performance.
• Perform power, area and performance exploration and optimization of digital designs.
• Design high performance execution units, arithmetic circuits and programmable engines.
• Work with verification teams to guarantee functional correctness and performance.

Skills

SystemVerilog

RTL design

microarchitecture

CPU/GPU/NPU

Python

C++

Education

BS degree in Computer Engineering

Tools

Chisel (Scala)

Synthesis tools

Power analysis tools

Formal verification tools

Job description

Waymo’s Compute Team is seeking a Senior Staff Silicon Engineer to help advance autonomous compute. The role blends hardware architecture with software interfaces to deliver high-performance ML features.

You will translate requirements, design microarchitectures, and optimize power and performance while collaborating with researchers, architects, and verification teams. Hybrid work in NY with strong engineering teamwork and impact.