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Principal Software Engineer, Simulation Efficiency Lead

Waymo

$332,000 - $421,000
Oct 28, 2025
Mountain View, CA, USA • San Francisco, CA, USA
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Waymo is looking to improve the efficiency and performance of its simulation infrastructure to support the development of the Waymo Driver

Requirements

  • 15 years of professional experience as a hands-on software engineer
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • 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

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
  • Leadership skills required to influence technical leaders across the company
  • Ability to work with and influence partners and stakeholders across Waymo
  • Ability to provide leadership in situations that require complex and immediate triaging
  • Ability to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program