Senior Staff Technical Lead, Simulator Platform Horizontal Integrations
Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States.
About this role
**About the Role** The Simulator Team at Waymo builds state-of-the-art simulations of realistic environments for testing and training the Waymo Driver. This Principal technical leadership role will look across multiple teams and guide architectural strategy for horizontal integrations across the entire Simulator software stack. You will lead simulator projects supporting new onboard architectures and ML systems, new vehicle platforms, and novel simulator capabilities and evaluation methodologies—defining scalable system interfaces and representing the Simulator Platform in wider cross-functional Waymo efforts. **You will:** - Architect and lead complex, horizontal software integrations across the Waymo Simulator stack. - Define long-term technical vision, system boundaries, and extensible interfaces that integrate onboard autonomy subsystems with offboard simulation and evaluation workflows. - Drive multi-quarter, cross-organizational technical roadmaps and large-scale architectural migrations across simulation, evaluation, and onboard engineering teams. - Partner with senior technical leaders across onboard, sim realism, vehicle platforms, and evaluation to align on end-to-end system design and fidelity requirements. - Establish technical standards, integration frameworks, and validation methodologies that accelerate how new Waymo Driver capabilities and vehicle platforms are brought into simulation. - Mentor senior engineers and technical leads across partner teams, elevating system architecture quality and driving cohesive cross-team execution. **You have:** - BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Math, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). - Extensive experience at a technical leadership level in an autonomous vehicle (AV) company, AV simulation company, robotics company, or a related complex simulation/autonomy domain. - Proven track record setting multi-year technical vision, driving multi-quarter roadmaps, and delivering complex horizontal software integrations across organizational boundaries. - Deep expertise architecting large-scale, high-complexity simulation or autonomy systems, integrating onboard software stacks, ML models, and vehicle platforms into simulation. - Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical designs, trade-offs, and strategies to diverse stakeholders (including senior leadership, partner engineering, research, and product teams). - Strong hands-on technical proficiency in C++ and large-scale software architecture, with demonstrated ability to establish collaboration structures across team boundaries. **We Prefer:** - Direct experience architecting end-to-end autonomous driving or robotics simulators, including closed-loop simulation, scenario generation, and onboard/offboard software interfaces. - Experience integrating next-generation onboard ML architectures, planning/behavior models, high-definition mapping, or environmental/weather models into simulation. - Experience driving large-scale simulation mode migrations and supporting multi-generation vehicle platforms across open-loop and closed-loop evaluation. - Proven success leading large-scale software re-architecture and cross-functional integration projects while maintaining high developer velocity and system reliability. **Compensation (US locations)** - Expected base salary range: **$298,000–$368,000 USD** - Waymo employees may also be eligible for
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