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# Embedded Software Technical Lead & Manager, Simulation

- **Company:** Waymo LLC
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $281,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Databases, Linux, Embedded Software, Ethernet, Monitoring of Systems, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Real Time Systems, C++14
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5918721716

## About the Role

* Technical leadership of software teams.
 * Strong knowledge of modern C++
 * Experience designing, implementing and maintaining production software systems
 * Linux on advanced user level
 * Familiarity in Electrical Engineering

We prefer:

 * People management experience
 * Passion for HIL simulation
 * Embedded programming experience
 * Linux for real-time applications
 * Knowledge of general-purpose and automotive network systems (Ethernet, CAN, etc.)
 * Familiarity with the building blocks for datacenter monitoring systems (databases, dashboards, etc.)

## Description

The Embedded Simulation team enables Waymo to quickly and reliably scale the Waymo Driver across new vehicle & hardware platforms, and to accelerate development of our embedded and reliability software systems. We build both dedicated test properties for embedded and hardware use cases, and also incorporate our technology into full-system behavioral simulation.

In this role, you will report to the Senior Director, R&D Software Engineering

You will:

 * Lead & manage team responsible for embedded HIL/SIL testing and simulation.
 * Set strategy for expansion of test & sim infrastructure to support new products and Waymo's scale.
 * Develop Waymo internal graph-based simulation framework in C++ and improve simulation realism by implementing models of a vehicle and environmental conditions.
 * Combine past logged data with the output of the models running in a loop for a more representative simulation.
 * Integrate SIL and HIL simulation with CI/CD pipelines.
 * Ensure test & sim infrastructure is highly available and reliable.