Staff Software Engineer (Simulation Realism)

Join Waymo, a leader in autonomous driving technology. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Simulator Team, you will develop advanced simulations for testing and training the Waymo Driver. You will work with a diverse team of software engineers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists to create industry-leading simulation solutions. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing scalable software systems, building and optimizing data pipelines, implementing data lifecycle management, and collaborating with engineers and researchers. This is a hybrid role with remote work opportunities available.

• Design and develop scalable C++ and Python software systems for data generation and management.
• Build and optimize data pipelines for processing, labeling, and curating large-scale multi-modal sensor data.
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers to define and build data APIs and interfaces, contributing to the long-term architecture of the simulation data ecosystem.
• Ability to solve open-ended technical and system design challenges
• 7+ years of experience in software development, focusing on backend or infrastructure
• Strong coding and design skills in C++ and/or Python
• BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Experience with databases, data warehousing, and production monitoring
• Experience with large-scale data processing systems (e.g., Flume, Beam, Spark)
• Familiarity with data management best practices for ML
• Experience building data platforms, data lakes, or ML feature stores
• Experience with large-scale multi-modal data
• Experience developing user-facing APIs and interfaces