Senior Platform Engineer – Scalable Simulation & Onboarding

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

Job summary

Waymo LLC, a leader in autonomous driving, seeks a Software Engineer to help scale the Waymo Driver platform. You will design reliable, low-latency systems for large-scale simulation and evaluation, and advance infrastructure for onboard engineers.

You will collaborate across teams to optimize resources (CPU/GPU/TPU) and reduce end-to-end latency while maintaining realism and reproducibility in data center simulations and on-vehicle testing.

Qualifications

• BS in CS, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar roles.
• 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++

Large-scale system experience

Infrastructure work experience

Education

BS in CS/EE/Robotics/Physics/Math

Job description

Waymo LLC, a leader in autonomous driving, seeks a Software Engineer to help scale the Waymo Driver platform. You will design reliable, low-latency systems for large-scale simulation and evaluation, and advance infrastructure for onboard engineers.

You will collaborate across teams to optimize resources (CPU/GPU/TPU) and reduce end-to-end latency while maintaining realism and reproducibility in data center simulations and on-vehicle testing.