Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform & Simulation

Waymo; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 251,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity incentive plan

Annual bonus

Company benefits

Job summary

The Simulator Team at Waymo builds state-of-the-art simulations for testing and validating the Waymo Driver. This hybrid role reports to a Sr Staff TLM and offers collaboration across software engineers, ML engineers, and data scientists.

You will design and develop scalable C++ and Python software systems for our data generation and management platform, build data pipelines for large-scale multi-modal sensor data, and improve platform performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 7+ years of software development experience, backend or infrastructure.
• Strong coding and design skills in C++ and Python.
• Experience with large-scale data processing systems (Flume, Beam, Spark).
• Experience with databases and production monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable C++ and Python software for our data generation and management platform.
• Build and optimize data pipelines for processing, labeling, and curating large-scale multi-modal sensor data.
• Implement robust data lifecycle management, versioning, and storage solutions.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of the data platform.
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers to define and build data APIs and interfaces.
• Contribute to the long-term architecture of the simulation data ecosystem.

Skills

C++

Python

Backend development

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

APIs

Education

BS/MS in Computer Engineering/CS

Tools

Flume

Beam

Spark

Databases

Data warehousing

Monitoring

Job description

The Simulator Team at Waymo builds state-of-the-art simulations for testing and validating the Waymo Driver. This hybrid role reports to a Sr Staff TLM and offers collaboration across software engineers, ML engineers, and data scientists.

You will design and develop scalable C++ and Python software systems for our data generation and management platform, build data pipelines for large-scale multi-modal sensor data, and improve platform performance and reliability.