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Waymo

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Jan 23, 2026
Salary
$204,000–$259,000 a year
Full-time

Software Engineer, GPU

Job description

In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.

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.

Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous…

Job 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 to maintain the GPU stack's functionality and performance
  • Create profiler and debugger tools for new GPU platforms

Job requirements

  • 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
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