Senior ML ASIC Design Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentive plan

Company benefits package

Job summary

Waymo is expanding its Compute Team and seeks a Senior Staff Silicon Engineer to help build the hardware backbone for autonomous driving software. You will translate high level requirements into hardware features and design microarchitectures that deliver top ML performance.

You'll perform power/area/performance exploration, craft high‑performance execution units, and work with verification teams to ensure correctness and speed.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience with SystemVerilog, ASIC 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

• Work with researchers and architects to 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 ASIC designs
• Design high performance execution units, arithmetic circuits and programmable engines
• Work with verification teams to guarantee functional correctness and performance

Skills

SystemVerilog

ASIC RTL design

Microarchitecture

Python

C++

Hardware verification

Education

BS degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Chisel

Synthesis tools

Power analysis tools

Formal verification tools

Job description

Waymo is expanding its Compute Team and seeks a Senior Staff Silicon Engineer to help build the hardware backbone for autonomous driving software. You will translate high level requirements into hardware features and design microarchitectures that deliver top ML performance.

You'll perform power/area/performance exploration, craft high‑performance execution units, and work with verification teams to ensure correctness and speed.