Senior Software Engineer, Waymo

Sensor Simulation

$204-259k

This role is eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, and equity incentive plan

GCP

C++

Unreal Engine

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Autonomous driving technology

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Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

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$204-259k

This role is eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, and equity incentive plan

GCP

C++

Unreal Engine

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years of experience working with Infrastructure - Ml Infra
5+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems
High productivity in C++
5+ years of experience focused on reliability, scalability, and engineering excellence

Desirable

3+ years of experience with Graphics
3+ years of experience with distributed systems for rendering
3+ years of experience serving ML models for generating images
3+ years of experience with Infrastructure for ML, Inference
3+ years of experience with Google Infra, borg. spanner , GCP

What the job involves

The Sensor Sim Platform team develops and deploys sensor simulation technologies to solve some of our hardest problems in safety validation, onboard development and ML model training.
We collaborate with research and partner teams on bleeding edge sensor simulation solutions, including Gaussian Splatting, GenAI Diffusion, Unreal Engine 5 and traditional ray tracing
In addition to specific rendering solutions, we are responsible for the distributed system and API hosting sensor simulation solutions
In this Hybrid role you will report to a Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager
Work on a planet-scale distributed simulation framework with performance and reliability requirements
Work with researchers and graphics experts to integrate bleeding edge sensor simulation solutions in a scalable distributed framework
Lead the of scaling Gaussian Splatting, Diffusion, Gen AI and Unreal Engine 5 on CPU, GPU and TPU backends
Ensure a high degree of reliability, usability and eng excellence of a product on Waymo's critical path to scaling mileage in new territories

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2024

$5.6bn

SERIES C

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $11.1bn

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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