Senior Staff Software Engineer, Waymo

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 8+ years of experience in ML-related software development
• 6+ years of experience in ML-driven production systems that develops models with large-scale data, training, evaluation, and deployment
• 4+ years of experience in a technical leadership role leading technical teams and setting technical directions
• 3+ years of experience with computer vision models, or LLMs, or vision language models
• Passion to drive engineering excellence and efficient model development through flywheel automation, while having direct technical experience in model quality development to achieve business goals

Desirable

• You will report to the Director of Engineering
• Work closely with ML engineers and infrastructure teams to design, set the roadmap, and implement the multi-stage training system that builds the foundation models and onboard models
• Optimize end-to-end training latency, to meet our release cadence while minimizing time-to-impact from new issues in the field to model update on the car
• Solve large-scale training with multi-model, multi-task, and large models, with millions of miles of driving data
• Provide technical leadership on the efficacy and efficiency of production critical models’ training system
• Drive and accelerate collaborations between Perception, infra teams at Waymo, and Alphabet collaborators