Senior Software Engineer, Linux Kernel and System Software

Waymo Onboard Infrastructure is responsible for low-level software and infrastructure on various components of the Waymo self-driving system.  The team’s scope covers everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth data logging, IPC (low-latency and high-throughput), performance analysis, full-system debugging, etc. We work closely 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.

In this role, you will work on the System Software Team. The System Software team owns the primary compute node of Waymo’s on-vehicle compute platform – a highly integrated, high performance embedded system. You will be responsible for writing Linux Kernel drivers (including creating appropriate user-space APIs) to communicate with custom hardware (e.g. custom ASICs and FPGAs). If you enjoy building robust and high-performance embedded systems using state-of-the-art 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 role, you will:

• 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.
• Work effectively across a variety of engineering teams and SoC partners to resolve issues
• Take on complex and ambiguous problems and come up with clean and robust solutions.

At a minimum we’d like you to 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++
• Strong understanding of programming in an asynchronous environment with multiple processes, threads, timers, interrupts, etc. 
• Experience with Linux kernel and device driver development
• Excellent debugging skills

It’s preferred if you have one or more of the following

• Experience with early-silicon development tools, e.g. emulators, simulators and FPGAs
• Experience with common hardware protocols/interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, etc)
• Experience with working with multiple types of industry partners (CM, ODM, OEM, ISV, etc.)
• Working knowledge of complex hardware-accelerated compute pipelines (GPUs, ML accelerators, image/data processors, etc.).
• Experience in dealing with existing, complex systems and codebases
• Performance optimization of systems and complex pipelines
• Working knowledge of hardware bring-up and debugging, including the ability to read schematics/datasheets and use common tools (oscilloscopes, multimeter, logic analyzers, etc.)