Senior Software Engineer, Linux Kernel is open at Waymo in Mountain View, California, USA. The posting gives a salary of $213K - $263K. Posted on Jul 16, 2025, and still on Waymo’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, you will work on the System Software Team. The System Software team owns the primary compute node of Waymo's on-vehicle compute platform – an integrated embedded system. You will write Linux Kernel drivers (including creating appropriate user-space APIs) to communicate with custom hardware (e.g. custom ASICs and FPGAs). If you enjoy building embedded systems using novel compute hardware and working with…
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