Director, Silicon Engineering

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Mountain View, CA
In-Office
332K-421K Annually
Expert/Leader
Automotive
The Role
Lead a silicon engineering team, guiding project execution, managing external relationships, and overseeing team budget and resources to develop high-performance silicon for autonomous vehicles.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 with many other teammates to ensure we design and improve hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a diverse team looking for curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world's highest performance automotive compute platforms.

In this hybrid role, you will report to the Head of Compute.

You will:

  • Lead a world-class, versatile silicon engineering team
  • Guide the end-to-end execution of complex silicon projects
  • Establish and refine the best design, verification, and physical design methodologies
  • Manage relationships and deliverables with important external partners
  • Oversee team budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation

You have:

  • Experience leading the end-to-end execution and delivery of complex, high-performance silicon
  • Experience building and scaling, diverse silicon teams
  • Deep technical expertise across the silicon development process to guide senior engineers and bring solutions to complex problems
  • Experience driving business and operational aspects of silicon execution, including budget ownership, partnerships, and escalations

We prefer:

  • Demonstrated experience in leadership, partnering with software, system, and architecture teams to agree on technical requirements and execution plans
  • Experience with the design of high-performance silicon for automotive applications
  • Direct experience with post-silicon activities, including ensuring high silicon quality and reliability
  • Familiarity with advanced packaging technologies
  • Experience managing geographically distributed teams
  • Knowledge of functional safety (FuSa) principles and design processes

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
$332,000$421,000 USD

Top Skills

Advanced Packaging Technologies
Silicon Design
Verification Methodologies
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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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