Tech Lead Manager, Simulation Infrastructure

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.

You will:

• 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

You have:

• 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

We prefer:

• 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