Sr. Software Engineer, Core Platforms

Waymo•Mountain View, CA

13h

About The Position

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Core Platform team is responsible for software and infrastructure on several components of the Waymo self-driving system. The team’s scope covers everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth data logging, IPC (low-latency and high-throughput), performance analysis, full-system debugging, system telemetry, and reliability. We work closely with the Hardware, Compute, Sensor, Perception, Behavior and Machine Learning teams to build the most performant and low-latency self-driving solution in the industry. This positions reports to the Tech Lead Manager.

Requirements

BA/BS degree in Computer Science, or relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience
Proficiency in C++
5+ years of relevant work experience
Familiarity with operating systems concepts on Linux: networking, filesystems, performance troubleshooting, device I/O, and concurrency
Experience developing applications for Linux-based embedded devices

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of GPUs, ML accelerators, power management, high-performance networking or performance optimization
Familiarity with robotics concepts: inter-process messaging, logging, reproducibility, diagnostics, and fail-safe designs
Experience driving change in existing, complex systems and codebases
Proficiency in Python

Responsibilities

Work on a small team of Software Engineers to develop system software components from early prototyping to production launch of autonomous vehicles
Improve the efficiency, reliability, and trustworthiness of onboard software infrastructure
Collaborate with a variety of engineering teams to take on complex problems

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