Senior Onboard Developer Platform Software Engineer

Waymo, Mountain View, CA +1

The role

In this hybrid role you will report to a Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead Manager.

Develop reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems to meet user needs, including accelerating large-scale simulation and eval, reinforcement learning-based fine-tuning pipeline, and analysis.
Evolve and scale up the simulation and evaluation platform to accelerate the "inner loop" of software development by 10X for onboard engineers (500+).
Develop the ADV's modular architecture and frameworks to achieve low latency, high reproducibility and realism when simulating in our data centers, while maintaining high performance for on-car driving.

Waymo, Mountain View, CA +1

$213K–$263K

a year

This base pay is above the median for senior infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the Bay Area.

We compare the middle of each posted range. This is base pay as posted. The group does not include this job.

Location: Mountain View, CA +1
Work type: Not given
Level: Senior
Experience: 3+ years
Skills in the job text: C++
Posted: Dec 15, 2025
Last check: 1 h ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE, Inference & ML systems, ML / AI engineering

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In this hybrid role you will report to a Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead Manager.

Develop reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems to meet user needs, including accelerating large-scale simulation and eval, reinforcement learning-based fine-tuning pipeline, and analysis.
Evolve and scale up the simulation and evaluation platform to accelerate the "inner loop" of software development by 10X for onboard engineers (500+).
Develop the ADV's modular architecture and frameworks to achieve low latency, high reproducibility and realism when simulating in our data centers, while maintaining high performance for on-car driving.