Software Engineer, Waymo
GPU
$192-243k
Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan; subject to eligibility requirements
Autonomous driving technology
Job no longer available
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$192-243k
Eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan; subject to eligibility requirements
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience C++ programming skills
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years experience with GPU programming / optimization using CUDA or similar technologies
- 1+ years experience with GPU architecture / programming model
- 5+ years experience using performance analysis tools and debuggers
- 5+ years experience with parallel computing/programming
Desirable
- Experience with LLVM or SPIR-V open-source ecosystems or other compiler projects
- Operating systems or embedded software experience especially working on device drivers
- Experience with GPU optimization techniques: memory coalescing, register/shared memory tiling, pinned memory, and warp-level programming
- Experience with GPU libraries: CUB, CUTLASS, Thrust, or Eigen
- Research experience in parallel algorithms, compilers, or computer architecture
- Experience with graphics workloads and shader programming
- ML frameworks/compiler/library
What the job involves
- Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the completely autonomous vehicle's software stack
- To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate with many other teammates to ensure we design and improve hardware and software for maximum performance
- In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Staff Engineer
- Collaborate with application teams to understand how to map newly developed and algorithms to GPU, allowing our cars to "see" further, operate smarter, and react faster
- Build primitives and abstractions that allow for scaling our code-base to constantly evolving workloads and hardware
- Improve and add new compiler optimizations to promote producing optimized GPU assembly
- Analyze performance counters, GPU micro-architectural features, and algorithms to identify optimization opportunities
- Contribute to infrastructure that performs testing / static analysis to catch bugs early and create automated alerts to encourage following best GPU performance practices
- Co-design hardware features and evaluate trade-offs for future generations of our compute platform
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
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 values
- Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
- Safety is our foundation
- We pioneer
- Act with thoughtful urgency
- Respect each other
- Be responsible owners
- We’re stronger together
- Optionality creates opportunities
- Always be learning
- Celebrate progress
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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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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