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# Senior Software Engineer, Sensor Simulation Platform

- **Company:** Waymo LLC
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $213,000.0 - $263,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Animation, Video Game Development, Data Storage Technologies, Gaussian, Machine Learning Operations, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3a3da43c4db37e72

## About the Role

* Developed or worked with 3D game engines
 * Experience in approximating the real world with data simulation, which might include physics simulation, animation capture, light transport, photogrammetry, NeRFs, or Gaussian splats
 * Experience in working on efficient asset management pipelines for data storage and processing

We prefer:

 * Prior experience in working on or integrating with ML pipelines and a general understanding of how such pipelines are trained and improved
 * Experience in scaling complex data processing pipelines and an understanding of the trade-offs in structuring these pipelines to operate synchronously or asynchronously



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