Tech Lead Manager- Onboard Software Performance

Waymo; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 238,000 - 302,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity incentive plan

Generous benefits

Job summary

Waymo is seeking an Onboard Software Performance Engineer to lead optimization of compute resources and latency for the Waymo Driver. You will drive modular architecture improvements and collaborate with hardware teams to maximize performance on our platform.

The role requires 6+ years in large-scale software systems, 4 years in leadership within performance infrastructure, and deep C++ expertise. A strong track record in end-to-end performance is essential.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in CS, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field.
• 6 years of software engineering experience on large scale/high complexity system (hundreds of engineers).
• 2 years of software management experience with at least 4 years in infrastructure/systems/performance domain.
• 4 years of experience acting as technical lead in performance/software infra.
• 4 years of experience in C++.

Responsibilities

• Develop ADV's modular architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize performance and compute utilization and ROI for driving quality.
• Evolve compute usage on the car and simulation to enable scaling where the system runs fast on the car and efficiently in data center.
• Collaborating with onboard teams to identify and improve compute performance bottlenecks across the stack to improve performance/driving quality.
• Collaborating with hardware teams to codesign hardware/software and optimize the software for best performance on our hardware platform.
• Ensuring performance is strong at driving complexity including scaling to more complex environments and rarer events.
• Ensuring state of the art reaction latency for collision avoidance via novel system/architecture designs.
• Developing high scale performance evaluation, debugging and software change management processes.
• Optimizing system resource usage to simulation at scale in Cloud datacenters: minimizing CPU, RAM; deciding CPU/GPU/TPU usage.

Education

BS/MS in CS, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field

6 years of software engineering experience on large scale/high complexity system

2 years of software management experience with at least 4 years in infra/systems/performance

4 years of experience acting as technical lead in performance/software infra

4 years of experience in C++

Define roadmap/portfolio of projects optimizing end results

Tools

C++

Job description

Overview

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Onboard Software Performance team ensures that systems running on ADV (Autonomously Driven Vehicle) meet strict performance requirements such as producing necessary outputs within strict latency targets and using an appropriately allocated amount of compute resources (CPU/GPU/TPU/RAM etc) for each respective submodule. All of this needs to be done at scale with performance guarantees of many 9s of reliability while enabling high velocity of system evolution.

Responsibilities

• Develop ADV's modular architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize performance and compute utilization and ROI for driving quality
• Evolve our compute usage on the car and simulation to enable continued scaling where the system runs fast on the car and efficiently in our data center
• Collaborating with onboard teams to identify and improve compute performance bottlenecks across the stack to improve performance/driving quality
• Collaborating with hardware teams to codesign hardware/software and optimize the software for best performance on our hardware platform
• Ensuring our performance is strong at any driving complexity including as we scale to even more complex driving environments and encounter rarer events
• Ensuring state of the art reaction latency for collision avoidance via novel system/architecture designs and extremely fast nominal performance
• Developing necessary high scale performance evaluation, debugging and software change management processes
• Optimizing 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.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 6 years of software engineering experience on large scale/high complexity system (supported by hundreds of engineers)
• 2 years of software management experience with at least 4 years in infrastructure/systems/performance domain optimizing end to end system for high performance metrics
• 4 years of experience acting as technical lead in performance/software infrastructure domain
• 4 years of experience in C++
• Define roadmap/portfolio of projects optimizing for end results overall across all aspects of the problem space
• Setup collaboration structures across team boundaries

We prefer

• Experience in robotics
• Experience in low level optimization techniques, frameworks (SIMD/CUDA) and ML performance/frameworks
• Experience in large scale evaluation techniques/data science and building performance metrics/tooling
• Experience in large scale software re-architecture projects

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range: $238,000—$302,000 USD