Software Engineer, Simulation Infrastructure

Company: Waymo
Location: Mountain View, CA, USA
Type: Full-time
Posted: Aug 20, 2026
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Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company, is hiring a Software Engineer for its Simulation Infrastructure team in Mountain View, CA. This hybrid role involves designing and building scalable simulation products to evaluate the Waymo Driver, with a tech stack of C++ and/or Golang. Requires 3+ years of experience building FAANG-scale infrastructure platforms. Salary range is $170,000–$216,000 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

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!

In this hybrid role you will report to the Software Engineering Manager.

You will:

  • Design the features and systems.
  • Code and Debug
  • Participate in on-call rotations
  • Develop new features

You have:

  • 3+ years of experience designing, building, or maintaining FAANG-scale infra platforms.
  • 3+ years of experience coding in C++ and/or Golang

We prefer:

  • Google Infrastructure experience
  • Scheduling in distributed systems
  • Observability in large scale 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
$170,000—$216,000 USD
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About the Company

Name: Waymo
Website: https://careers.withwaymo.com

At Waymo, our mission is clear: to be the world’s most trusted driver. We innovate beyond today’s impossible to save lives, drive inclusive mobility to offer freedom of movement for all, and improve the state of our planet and make it better than we found it. We are building our autonomous driving technology to reinvent how people get around. Together, we are creating a world where transportation is more accessible, sustainable, safe and delightful for all.

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