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, focusing on efficiency and performance optimization. You will collaborate with multiple teams, develop architecture improvements, and represent the Simulator team in wider performance-related efforts. Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, competitive compensation, and a hybrid work model.

• 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.
• Experience in robotics
• Experience in low level optimization techniques, frameworks (SIMD/CUDA) and ML performance/frameworks
• Experience in large scale software re-architecture projects
• Experience in large scale evaluation techniques/data science and building performance metrics/tooling
• Extensive experience acting as technical lead in performance/software infrastructure domain
• 6+ years experience on large scale or high complexity system
• 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
• Solid software management experience in infrastructure/systems/performance domain optimizing end to end system for high performance metrics
• 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
• Proficient in C++
• Setup collaboration structures across team boundaries
• BS/MS in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience)