About the Role
Waymo's Compute Team is seeking curious and talented teammates to architect and create high-performance custom silicon, develop system-level compute architectures, and collaborate on hardware/software optimization for one of the world’s highest performance automotive compute platforms.
Responsibilities
- Leverage agentic AI to accelerate analysis, planning and implementation of production software improvements
- Analyze the performance characteristics of code generated by our production grade compiler, and design and implement optimizations to improve that performance
- Design and implement compiler support for novel features of our high-performance architecture
- Work with hardware architects to understand and influence the development of our unique neural network inference platform through hardware/software codesign
- Work with model developers to tune their neural networks for better inference efficiency and accuracy
Requirements
- BS degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience and 5+ years of industry experience OR MS degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering and 3+ years of industry experience OR PhD degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering and 1+ years of industry experience
- 3+ years experience working on compilers for parallel architectures
- 1+ years experience working with ML inference or linear algebra computation
- C++ programming skills, including leveraging agentic AI acceleration
Skills
- Python programming experience
- Experience with compilers for neural networks, especially MLIR-based
- Knowledge of computer architectures used for neural network inference, and neural network performance characteristics
- Knowledge of the principles behind popular machine learning and neural network algorithms and applications
Location
- US
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of industry experience (with BS)
- 3+ years of industry experience (with MS)
- 1+ years of industry experience (with PhD)
Education Level
- BS degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
- MS degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
- PhD degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering
Salary/Compensations
- $213,000—$263,000 USD
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
About the Company
- Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
- Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
- The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases.
- The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
