Waymo

Actively Hiring

Senior Software Engineer

Mountain View, United States

Full-time

Role Overview

We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle's software stack. We architect and create high-performance custom silicon and system-level compute architectures.

About Waymo

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 to improve access to mobility while saving lives.

Key Responsibilities

Develop high-performance GPU primitives and abstractions to enable Waymo to scale its accelerator codebase across diverse GPU backends
Collaborate with Waymo's internal hardware team and external partners on SoC projects with a focus on the GPU portion
Manage the bring-up, correctness, and performance of the Waymo onboard stack on new GPU platforms
Contribute to testing infrastructure that enhances the CI/CD flow for GPUs, detects bugs early, and generates automated alerts
Create profiler and debugger tools for new GPU platforms

Requirements & Eligibility

Expertise in C++ programming for GPU (CUDA or similar framework)
Bachelor degrees in EECS, coupled with a minimum of five years of industry experience
Solid understanding of GPU software stack
Solid understanding of key GPU hardware characteristics that are important to GPU SW efficiency
Proficiency in utilizing performance analysis tools and debuggers
Enthusiasm for developing the complete GPU software stack, from the hardware level to real-world applications

Required Skills & Tech

C++CUDALinuxLLVMSPIR-VThrustCUBCUTLASSEigen