Senior Software Engineer, Waymo

• C++ programming skills (required), with Python experience
• 4+ years of experience with large-scale data systems (e.g., Spark, Beam, or Dataflow)
• Background in ML data engineering, data curation, or active learning
• Experience building and maintaining end-to-end ML data pipelines
• Collaboration skills with model, infra, and product teams

Desirable

• Within Perception, the Data Primary team builds and operates the data infrastructure that powers Waymo's perception foundation models
• We design scalable pipelines that process petabytes of sensor data and allow everything from rare event mining to large-scale offline model deployment
• Our work directly supports model training, evaluation, and production, ensuring that perception models have the high-quality, diverse data they need to perform safely
• We collaborate across ML, Simulation, and Infrastructure teams to integrate data into the model lifecycle and help bring new capabilities to the Waymo Driver
• In this hybrid role, you will report to an engineering manager
• Design and improve large-scale data pipelines that serve ML and research teams
• Deploy and maintain data flows for reliable, high-quality dataset delivery
• Apply ML techniques (e.g., embeddings, active learning) for data search and curation
• Build tools for scalable data mining and offboard inference
• Work to accelerate new model deployment across cities and platforms