- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 10, 2025
- Salary
- $251,000–$310,000 a year
Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Platform
Job description
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…
Job responsibilities
- 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
Job requirements
- Hands-on experience building a popular (internal- or external-facing) product.
- Experience on backend knowledge such as workflows, databases, SQL, production monitoring, etc.
- Strong in C++.
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