Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager (Simulator Efficiency)

Join Waymo, a leader in autonomous driving technology. As a Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager, you will guide the strategy for the entire Simulator software stack, ensuring scalability and efficiency. You will lead the Simulator Platform's efficiency efforts, collaborate with various teams, and optimize system resource usage for large-scale simulations. Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, competitive compensation, and a hybrid work model.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Simulator Platform's efficiency efforts and represent the team in wider Waymo performance-related efforts.
• Develop Simulator's architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize performance and compute utilization.
• Collaborate with evaluation and infrastructure teams to identify and improve compute performance bottlenecks across the stack.

Setup collaboration structures across team boundaries

• Proven track record of setting technical vision, driving multi-quarter roadmaps, and delivering impactful data projects as a technical lead for senior engineering teams, with demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical designs, trade-offs, and strategies to diverse stakeholders, including senior leadership and partner engineering, data scientists, and product teams
• Define roadmap/portfolio of projects optimizing for end results overall across all aspects of the problem space
• Extensive experience acting as technical lead in performance/software infrastructure domain

Requirements

Proficient in C++

• 6+ years experience on large scale or high complexity system
• BS/MS in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience in robotics
• Experience in large scale software re-architecture projects
• Experience in large scale evaluation techniques/data science and building performance metrics/tooling

Preferred

• Solid software management experience in infrastructure/systems/performance domain optimizing end to end system for high performance metrics
• Experience in low level optimization techniques, frameworks (SIMD/CUDA) and ML performance/frameworks

Pay

USD 281,000 - 356,000