Senior Software Engineer (Simulator Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Simulator Platform): Developing and enhancing simulation solutions for the Waymo Driver with an accent on realistic environment modeling and performance optimization. Focus on collaborating with engineers to scale simulation and support critical milestones.

Location: Onsite in Mountain View or San Francisco, California, United States

Salary: $204,000—$259,000 USD

Company

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on building the Waymo Driver to improve mobility and safety.

What you will do

• Work closely with onboard and research engineers to scale simulation and enable critical Waymo milestones
• Support development, testing, and evolution of mapping data in the simulator
• Improve/monitor the performance, scalability, and reliability of the simulator
• Design the long-term architecture to fit the product to an increasing number of internal customers

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building a popular product
• 5+ years of experience with backend knowledge such as workflows, databases, SQL, production monitoring
• Strong in C++

Nice to have

• Experience with the release of software in a highly distributed heterogeneous execution environment
• Experience with systems programming (game engines, database, OS, distributed)
• Experience with ML