ML ASIC Design Engineer

Waymo•Mountain View, CA

3d•$175,000 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully 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 closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world’s highest performance automotive compute platforms. This role follows a hybrid work schedule.

Requirements

BS degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of industry experience with SystemVerilog, ASIC RTL design and microarchitecture
3+ years designing and specifying microarchitectures of high performance computing cores (CPU/GPU/NPU)
Fluency in at least one high level programming language such as Python, C++

Nice To Haves

Experience designing datapath elements of high performance cores (CPU/GPU/NPU)
Experience working with Chisel (Scala) or other higher-level hardware DSL's
Working knowledge of machine learning algorithms & how they map to hardware
Familiarity with Synthesis and power analysis tools
Experience working with formal tools for datapath verification

Responsibilities

Work with researchers and architects to translate high level requirements into hardware features
Specify and design microarchitectures to deliver world class ML performance
Perform power, area and performance exploration and optimization of digital ASIC designs
Design high performance execution units, arithmetic circuits and programmable engines
Work with verification teams to guarantee functional correctness and performance