Onboard Software Performance Engineer (C++)

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Onboard Software Performance Engineer (C++) in USA

Waymo
Full time
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USA
10/26/2026
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Mountain View, CA

Responsibilities

Develop modular architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize autonomous driving performance, compute utilization, and return on investment.
Optimize compute usage on vehicles and in simulation to support system scaling and fast execution.
Identify and improve performance bottlenecks across onboard software stacks in collaboration with onboard teams.
Collaborate with hardware teams on hardware/software codesign and platform optimization.
Design systems and architectures for extremely fast nominal performance and collision-avoidance reaction latency.
Develop large-scale performance evaluation, debugging, and software change-management processes.
Reduce CPU, RAM, and latency usage in cloud datacenter simulations and determine appropriate CPU, GPU, and TPU computation allocation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, physics, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 3 years of experience as a software engineer or in a similar role.
At least 3 years of C++ experience.
At least 3 years of experience optimizing software with profile-guided techniques.
Preferred: 2 years of infrastructure, systems, or performance-domain experience optimizing end-to-end systems.
Preferred: 2 years of experience working on large-scale or highly complex systems supported by hundreds of engineers.
Preferred: experience in robotics, low-level optimization techniques, SIMD, CUDA, ML performance or frameworks, and evaluation techniques.

Benefits

Hybrid remote/in-office work arrangement.
Discretionary annual bonus program, subject to eligibility requirements.
Equity incentive plan, subject to eligibility requirements.
Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary: $175k - $215k/yr

Waymo

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