Our Platforms team is responsible for low-level software and infrastructure on various components of the Waymo self-driving system. Our team's scope covers everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth data logging, IPC (low-latency and high-throughput), networking, scheduling, process management, performance analysis, full-system debugging, etc. We partner with the Hardware, Compute, Sensor, Perception, Behavior and Machine Learning teams to build the most performant and low-latency self-driving solution in the industry.

If you enjoy building robust and high-performance embedded systems using compute hardware and working closely with engineering teams that will be direct consumers of your work, you'll be a great fit for this role.

In this hybrid role, you will report into a Software Engineering Director.

You will:

• Work on the Core Platform team, responsible for the primary compute note of Waymo's on-vehicle platform – a highly integrated, high performance embedded system.
• Work on a small team of System Software and Linux Kernel Engineers to design, implement and test system software components from early prototyping to production launch of driverless vehicles
• Design, implement and test Linux Kernel device drivers and other components for high-performance embedded systems including custom ASICs and accelerators.
• Take on complex and ambiguous problems and come up with clean solutions.

You have:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in C and C++
• Experience with programming in an asynchronous environment with multiple processes, threads, timers, or interrupts.
• Experience with Linux kernel and device driver development
• Excellent debugging skills

We prefer:

• Experience with common hardware protocols/interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet or I2C)
• Working knowledge of complex hardware-accelerated compute pipelines (GPUs, ML accelerators or image/data processors)
• Performance optimization of systems and complex pipelines
• Working knowledge of hardware bring-up and debugging

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