Waymo
Staff Tech Lead Software Engineer, Vehicle Realism Platform
$251K–$310K
Mountain View, CA, USA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 6+ years experience in software development.
About the job
Leads software engineering for the Vehicle Realism Platform, building reliable simulation systems that model vehicles and support autonomous-driving development, testing, and validation.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with onboard and research engineers to expand simulation capabilities and meet milestones.
- Improve simulator reproducibility, reliability, and usability, and design long-term architectures.
- Integrate vehicle subsystems with simulation infrastructure to enhance realism and deliver reliable simulation solutions.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building a popular internal or external-facing product.
- Backend experience, such as workflows, databases, SQL, debugging, or production monitoring.
- Strong background in C++.
- 6+ years experience in software development.
Nice to have
- Experience releasing software in a highly distributed heterogeneous execution environment or with systems programming.
- Experience with robotics or perception systems, performance optimization in complex backend and infrastructure systems, or ML.
Pay
$251,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, SQL
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