Job Description

Overview

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 Driverthe world's most experienced driverto 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 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 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 mission: delivering the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle's software stack. We architect and create high-performance custom silicon, develop system-level compute architectures that push performance, power, and latency boundaries, and collaborate with many teammates to 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.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the Physical Design of advanced silicon for our self-driving cars.
• Contribute to the design and closure of the full chip and individual blocks from RTL-to-GDS.
• Collaborate with internal logic and internal and external PD teams to achieve the best PPA possible, including conducting feasibility studies for new microarchitectures and optimizing runs for finished RTL.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience on PD design tasks in advanced silicon nodes with a minimum of 3 tapeouts.
• Expertise in defining and developing the signoff methodology across multiple domains, including static timing analysis (STA), power integrity (EM/IR), and physical verification (DRC/LVS).
• Deep knowledge of STA. Proficient in timing constraints with the ability to generate, maintain, and verify SDC files.
• Experience with multi-power-domain sub-system and chip-top level assembly/closure. Familiar with UPF-based PD flow and methodology.
• Ability to automate EDA tasks through scripting. Competency with TCL and Python.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated capability to work under tight schedules.

We prefer

• Experience owning complex, high-frequency blocks from RTL-to-GDS with an understanding of floorplanning, synthesis, place and route (including CTS), timing closure, and sign off.
• Experience with CAD flow development.
• Experience working with external partners on PD closure.
• Understanding of DFT including Scan, MBIST and LBIST.
• Deep understanding of performance, power and area (PPA) tradeoffs.
• Strong experience with back end flows (LEC, PI/SI, DRC/LVS, etc).

Compensation

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

$204,000 $259,000 USD

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