Waymo
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USD 251000-310000/yr

Tech Lead Manager, Simulation Infrastructure

United StatesUnited States·San Francisco,Mountain Viewlead
EngineeringEngineering Manager
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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,

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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.

The Simulation Infrastructure team creates reliable, scalable, and cost-effective Simulation-based products that evaluate the Waymo Driver's software stack at a massive scale. We solve complex technical challenges to build services and tools for a broad range of customers Software Engineers, Product, Data Science, System Engineering, and more. So if you want to build the next generation of Simulation products and infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you!

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Software Engineering Manager.

 

  • Provide technical leadership and people management for a team of software engineers building Waymo's distributed simulation engine
  • Architect, scale, and operate the massive distributed system that validates the autonomous driving software stack daily
  • Drive improvements in scheduler throughput, resource allocation, queuing latency, and cluster utilization
  • Establish team roadmaps, define engineering best practices, and mentor team members to support their technical growth
  • Partner with simulation, machine learning, and platform infrastructure teams to ensure seamless, high-throughput execution of their workloads

 

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent field
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of both technical leadership and people management
  • 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure or batch processing systems
  • Hands-on experience optimizing large-scale job scheduling, resource orchestration, or queueing systems
  • Experience managing or leading large scale systems and software development engineering teams    

 

  • Deep experience with large-scale cluster management systems    
  • Strong programming capabilities in Golang and C++
  • Deep understanding of advanced operating systems, scheduling, containerization, sandboxing, or distributed file systems

 

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations 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. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. 

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
$251,000$310,000 USD

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Mountain View, United States
On-site at the office
Who can apply
US

Listing Details

Posted
June 4, 2026
First seen
June 5, 2026
Last seen
June 5, 2026

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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make transportation safe and accessible through self-driving solutions.

Employees
3k+
Founded
2016
Domain
waymo.com
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WaymoTech Lead Manager, Simulation InfrastructureUSD 251000-310000