Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Platform

The Simulator Team at Waymo builds state-of-the-art simulations of realistic environments for testing and training the Waymo Driver. Your team will be a diverse, and collaborative group of machine learning (ML) engineers, software engineers and data scientists. We develop industry-leading simulation solutions using advanced ML algorithms that measure and enhance the performance of the Waymo Driver. We achieve those goals by jointly modeling the real world, including realistic agents (vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists), roads, traffic control systems, and weather conditions, and the full sensor suite including camera, Lidar and radars.

To increase the fidelity, scalability and controllability of our simulations,we employ the latest ML technologies such as large language models, foundational world models, and reconstructive methods trained on large-scale datasets with both generative and reconstructive technologies, as well as traditional rendering approaches.

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Staff Engineering Manager.

You will:

• 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 the reliability of the simulator
• Design the long term architecture to fit the product to an increasing number of internal customers

You have:

• Hands-on experience building a popular (internal- or external-facing) product.
• 5+ years of experience with backend knowledge such as workflows, databases, SQL, production monitoring, etc
• Strong in C++
• Bachelor’s degree (e.g., in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field) or equivalent practical experience.

We prefer:

• 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
• Previous TL experience

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