Waymo

Technology

MLMicroarchitect

$175–215k Mountain View, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“ML Microarchitect at Waymo. Skills: ML Microarchitecture, High-performance computing, Hardware/software co-design. Translate requirements into hardware features. Specify microarchitectures”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

BS degree in Computer Engineering, 5+ years industry experience, 3+ years designing microarchitectures, Fluency in Python or C++

Nice to Have

Experience designing datapath elements, Experience with Chisel or other DSLs, Working knowledge of ML algorithms, Familiarity with Synthesis tools, Familiarity with power analysis tools, Experience with formal tools

What You'll Do.

Translate requirements into hardware features

Specify microarchitectures

Design microarchitectures

Perform power exploration

Perform area exploration

Perform performance optimization

Design execution units

Design arithmetic circuits

Design programmable engines

Work with verification teams

Guarantee functional correctness

Guarantee performance

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with researchers; Work with architects; Collaborate with teammates; Work with verification teams

Full Job Description

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. Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle’s software stack. To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world’s highest performance automotive compute platforms. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to the Senior Staff Silicon Engineer. You will: Work with researchers and architects to translate high level requirements into hardware features Specify and design microarchitectures to deliver world class ML performance Perform power, area and performance exploration and optimization of digital designs Design high performance execution units, arithmetic circuits and programmable engines Work with verification teams to guarantee functional correctness and performance You have: BS degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience 5+ years of industry experience with Syste

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