Senior Software Engineer, Simulator Platform

Waymo
Mountain View, CA, USA / Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680), Mountain View, California, United States / San Francisco (US-SFO-MKT555), San Francisco, California, United States2025-09-10

About the job

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.

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

Qualifications

Minimum

Hands-on experience building a popular (internal or external-facing) product

5+ years of experience with backend knowledge such as workflows, databases, SQL, production monitoring, etc

Strong in C++

Preferred

Experience with the release of software in a highly distributed heterogeneous execution environment

Experience with systems programming (game engines, database, OS, distributed)

Experience with ML