Waymo's simulation infrastructure is a backbone of Waymo Driver development, powering all simulation, evaluation, and foundation model training use cases. The company is seeking an individual to lead the strategic vision for improving the efficiency and performance of this critical infrastructure.
Requirements
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Develop a strategic vision for improving efficiency and performance of Waymo simulation infrastructure.
- Work with and influence partners and stakeholders across Waymo to build joint roadmaps
- Establish top-level performance and efficiency KPIs, metrics to monitor key business outcomes, track progress, and identify areas for improvement
- Provide leadership in situations that require complex and immediate triaging, technical problems, and other emergency work and helping leadership of associated teams understand the larger technical issues
- Act as a senior reviewer or go-to person for large scale changes, and develop appropriate decision-making and technical review processes
Other
- 15 years of professional experience as a hands-on software engineer
- Leadership skills required to influence technical leaders across the company
- Experience of driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries, building multi-dimensional stakeholder relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals.
- Innovative problem solver who turns ambiguity into clear solutions, comfortable with new technology and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Cultivation of ideas across organizational boundaries that create strategic opportunities.
- LI-Hybrid
