Senior Tech Lead Manager, Simulator Platform (Performance)

Waymo; California (MO); On-site; USD 281,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentives

Benefits package

Job summary

Waymo’s Simulator Team seeks a technical leader to guide architecture improvements and performance optimization for large-scale simulations. You will oversee compute utilization across CPU/GPU/TPU resources, drive multi-quarter roadmaps, and collaborate with evaluation and infrastructure teams to remove bottlenecks.

A strong track record in infrastructure performance is essential. The role emphasizes leadership, deep technical expertise in C++, and the ability to communicate complex designs to

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Proven track record of setting technical vision, driving multi-quarter roadmaps, and delivering impactful data projects as a technical lead for senior engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills with stakeholders including senior leadership and partner engineering, data scientists, and product teams
• 6+ years experience on large scale or high complexity system
• Solid software management experience in infrastructure/systems/performance domain
• Extensive experience acting as technical lead in performance/software infrastructure domain
• Define roadmap/portfolio of projects optimizing for end results across the problem space
• Setup collaboration structures across team boundaries

Responsibilities

• Develop Simulator's architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize performance and compute utilization
• Evolve compute usage of simulation to enable continued scaling where the system runs efficiently in our data centers
• Collaborate with evaluation and infrastructure teams to identify and improve compute performance bottlenecks across the stack
• Design, build, and optimize the simulator to enable high throughput and high compute utilization for both single instance simulation and large scale simulations
• Developing necessary high scale performance evaluation, debugging and software change management processes
• Optimizing system resource usage to simulation at scale: minimizing CPU utilization and latency, minimizing RAM consumption, intelligently determining which computations should happen on CPU, GPU, and TPU

Skills

C++

Technical leadership

Roadmap planning

Communication

Performance optimization

Distributed systems

Education

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

Tools

SIMD

CUDA

Job description

Waymo’s Simulator Team seeks a technical leader to guide architecture improvements and performance optimization for large-scale simulations. You will oversee compute utilization across CPU/GPU/TPU resources, drive multi-quarter roadmaps, and collaborate with evaluation and infrastructure teams to remove bottlenecks.

A strong track record in infrastructure performance is essential. The role emphasizes leadership, deep technical expertise in C++, and the ability to communicate complex designs to