Compute Systems Engineer

Waymo | General | Autonomous driving technology

Hybrid

Full Time

Taiwan, Province of China, Hsinchu City, Taipei City

2.6M - 3.1M TWD/yr

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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle’s software stack. To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world’s highest performance automotive compute platforms.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule, and you will report to the Tech Lead Manager of the Compute team.

You will:

Design and implement full stack solution from firmware, low-level drivers, APIs for ML accelerator chips
Analyze and optimize firmware and driver performance for demanding AI workloads
Collaborate with hardware engineers closely throughout the ASIC design and verification processes
Design and implement efficient memory management solutions including NUMA, IOMMU, etc

You have:

3+ years of experience in software development
Baremetal or RTOS firmware development experience
Experience with embedded architectures, IO technologies (e.g. PCIe, DRAM, AXI, etc.), and hardware/software interactions
Strong C, C++ skills

We prefer:

Experience with RISC-V architecture
Experience with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX
Familiar with hardware-software co-design principles
Experience with silicon emulator

The expected base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range

$2,600,000—$3,150,000 TWD

Required Skills

apiscperformance_marketingmemory_managementrtostensorflow

Required Languages

🇬🇧 English

Key competency: General