CareerPlan

Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager, Simulator Efficiency

Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)Full-time$281k–$356k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
Based in United States

Core

Lead efficiency efforts for Waymo's Simulator Platform, optimizing compute utilization and performance for testing and training the autonomous Waymo Driver.

Role type

Senior Staff Tech Lead Manager, Simulator Efficiency

Builds

Simulator software stack and evaluation infrastructure for autonomous driving

Domain

Autonomous driving, simulation, high-performance computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++, large-scale system optimization, technical leadership, architecture design, performance profiling, resource management (CPU/GPU/TPU), software change management

Preferred skills

robotics, low-level optimization (SIMD/CUDA), ML performance frameworks, large-scale evaluation techniques, software re-architecture

Technologies

C++, SIMD, CUDA, CPU, GPU, TPU

Responsibilities

Develop architecture improvements to maximize performance and compute utilization; Evolve compute usage to enable scaling in data centers; Collaborate with evaluation and infrastructure teams to resolve performance bottlenecks; Design and optimize simulator for high throughput; Develop high-scale performance evaluation and debugging processes; Optimize system resource usage to minimize latency and RAM consumption.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with management responsibilities