Platform Software Engineer - Scalable Simulation Infra

Waymo LLC; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Generous benefits program

Job summary

Waymo LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to help accelerate development of the Waymo Driver infrastructure. The role focuses on building reliable, scalable systems for large-scale simulation, evaluation, and ML-driven fine-tuning in a hybrid work setting.

You will work on modular architectures to ensure low latency and high realism for in-center and on-car simulations, collaborating across teams to remove bottlenecks and support scaling to hundreds of onboard engineers.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

C++

Software engineering

Large-scale systems

Infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Robotics/Physics/Math

Job description

Waymo LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to help accelerate development of the Waymo Driver infrastructure. The role focuses on building reliable, scalable systems for large-scale simulation, evaluation, and ML-driven fine-tuning in a hybrid work setting.

You will work on modular architectures to ensure low latency and high realism for in-center and on-car simulations, collaborating across teams to remove bottlenecks and support scaling to hundreds of onboard engineers.