Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Platform (C++)

Location: Hybrid/onsite in Mountain View or San Francisco, California, United States

Salary: $251,000–$310,000 USD annually, plus eligibility for an annual bonus, equity incentives, and company benefits.

Company

Autonomous driving technology company developing fully autonomous ride-hail services and simulation systems for the Waymo Driver.

What you will do

• Scale simulation systems and support critical autonomous-driving milestones in collaboration with onboard and research engineers.
• Develop, test, and evolve mapping data within the simulator.
• Improve and monitor simulator performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Design long-term architecture for growing internal customer and product needs.
• Build realistic simulations of vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, roads, traffic controls, weather, and camera, lidar, and radar sensor suites.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building a widely used internal- or external-facing product.
• Strong C++ skills.
• Backend experience with workflows, databases, SQL, and production monitoring.
• Experience collaborating across software engineering, machine learning, data science, onboard engineering, and research teams.
• Availability to work in a hybrid/onsite role in Mountain View or San Francisco, California.

Nice to have

• Experience releasing software in highly distributed, heterogeneous execution environments.
• Systems programming experience with game engines, databases, operating systems, or distributed systems.
• Machine learning experience.
• Previous technical leadership experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment involving machine learning engineers, software engineers, and data scientists.
• Work on advanced simulation technologies using large language models, world models, generative methods, reconstructive methods, and traditional rendering.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
• Equity incentive plan and company benefits program, subject to eligibility.