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Software Engineer – Planner Infrastructure
| Company | Waymo |
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| Location | Mountain View, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $170000 – $216000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level |
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Requirements
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 3+ years of experience writing efficient, high-performance C++ code
- 3 years of industry experience designing and writing production code
- 3+ years of experience leading technical contributions and excellent engineering execution.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that our software is designed for performance and reliability using principled APIs/frameworks and implemented using advanced technologies and engineering best practices.
- Ensure that our system can produce safe driving plans in an allotted timing and compute budget (potentially for hundreds of people and cars around the self-driving car).
- Be able to react and change direction at super-human latencies when there are new hazards detected by our perception system.
- Conduct software testing and validation, including the use of simulation and static analyzers to ensure that there are no reliability problems in our software that runs on the road.
- Ensure our machine learning models are performing well on GPU/TPU and other hardware accelerators.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience designing, building, or maintaining FAANG-scale infra platforms.
- 3+ years of experience building performant and easy to use scalable systems and tools.
- 3+ years of experience in C++ and C++ specific low-level code optimizations
- 3+ years of experience in robotics or self-driving cars.
- Experience with ML model inference performance and frameworks like CUDA and JAX.
- Experience designing or writing software for high-reliability systems, performance optimization, or productionizing deep learning models on GPU for low inference latency.
