Design Engineer, ASIC

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Mountain View, CA
In-Office
170K-216K Annually
Automotive
The Role

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ 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.

In this hybrid role, you'll report to an ASIC Design Manager

You will:

  • Work with researchers and architects to translate high level requirements into hardware features
  • Specify, architect, and design hardware accelerators that process sensor data and other system compute workloads
  • Perform power, area and performance trade-off analyses of digital designs
  • Work with verification teams to guarantee functional correctness and performance
  • Create and run software that tests digital designs in simulation and bringup

You have:

  • BS degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of industry experience with Verilog and SystemVerilog, RTL digital microarchitecture
  • Knowledge of computer architecture and on-chip communication networks (e.g. AXI)
  • Experience with industry standard protocols, interfaces, and IP components, such as PCIe, DDR, MIPI, Ethernet, and NoCs
  • Fluency in at least one high level programming language such as Python, C++

We prefer:

  • Master's or PhD degree in Engineering
  • Experience with the full digital design verification cycle -- from spec through bring-up
  • Experience with High Level Synthesis (HLS)
  • Experience with performance and power validation, and formal verification
  • Working knowledge of machine learning algorithms & how they map to hardware

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The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. 

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. 

Salary Range
$170,000$216,000 USD

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The Company
Mountain View, CA
2,359 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve the world’s mobility while saving thousands of lives.
Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings.

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