Senior Staff Software Engineer, Capacity Optimization
Waymo · Mountain View, CA · Simulation (7XW)
About this role
Waymo is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Mountain View, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, R, SQL, AWS. Compensation is listed at $281,000–$356,000 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
- Department
- Simulation (7XW)
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Job description
from Waymo careersWaymo 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.
We are establishing a new team called SCORPIO (SimEval Capacity Operations, Resource Planning, Infrastructure Optimization). This team will be at the forefront of ensuring the efficient and effective use of Waymo's large-scale simulation compute, storage, and network resources. SCORPIO will develop the data-driven models, metrics, and processes to forecast demand, plan capacity, and optimize resource allocation, ultimately improving developer experience and maximizing return on infrastructure investments.
You will:
As the founding Senior Staff Engineer of the SCORPIO team, you will:
- Define the vision, strategy, and technical roadmap for data-driven capacity planning and resource optimization within Waymo's simulation environment.