Onboard Software Performance Engineer (C++)

Waymo · Mountain View

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Company
Waymo
Location
Mountain View
Salary
$175,000 — $215,000
Posted
November 11, 2025

About this job

The Onboard Software Performance team ensures that systems running on our Waymo's meet strict performance requirements such as producing necessary outputs within strict latency targets and using the allocated amount of compute resources (CPU/GPU/TPU/RAM) for each respective submodule. All of this needs to be done at scale with performance guarantees of many 9s of reliability while promoting high velocity of system evolution. You will: Develop ADV's modular architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize performance and compute use and ROI for driving quality Evolve our compute usage on the car and simulation to promote continued scaling where the system runs fast on the car and in our data center Collaborate with onboard teams to identify and improve compute performance bottlenecks…

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