Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Waymo

Inference

$192-243k

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

AWS

GCP

Python

Tensorflow

C++

Azure

PyTorch

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Autonomous driving technology

Posted today

Autonomous driving technology

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Posted today

$192-243k

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan

AWS

GCP

Python

Tensorflow

C++

Azure

PyTorch

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

1001+ employees

B2CTransportAutomation

Company mission

To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

B.S. in Computer Science, Math, or equivalent real-world experience
Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals and experience with popular ML frameworks such as JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
Experience with building and optimizing scalable inference platforms for real-time and batch processing
Practical familiarity using profiling tools to uncover performance bottlenecks
Experienced in software development projects using C++ or Python and deploying on cloud platforms, for example AWS, Azure, or GCP

Desirable

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Math
Experience with distributed system and multi-threaded and stream-based programming models
Practical familiarity using ML accelerator profiling tools to uncover performance bottlenecks

What the job involves

In this role you will focus on developing large-scale and efficient inference solutions for Waymo
This is crucial to the development of Waymo Foundation Models for driving including evaluation, auto-labeling and distillation
This role reports to an Engineering Manger

Our take

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.

With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.

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Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2024

$5.6bn

SERIES C

Jun 2021

$2.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $11.1bn

Company values

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
Safety is our foundation
We pioneer
Act with thoughtful urgency
Respect each other
Be responsible owners
We’re stronger together
Optionality creates opportunities
Always be learning
Celebrate progress

Company HQ

Mountain View, CA

Articles

Waymo’s new leadership & the future of self-driving cars

Waymo raises further $2.5bn for self-driving car project

Waymo is expanding its driverless program in Phoenix

A Quick Guide To Waymo Self-Driving Cars In Downtown Phoenix

Self-Driving Waymo Robotaxi in Collision with Bicyclist in San Francisco, Raising Safety Concerns

Waymo issues a voluntary recall on its self-driving vehicle software

Waymo AVs Recalled After Hitting Same Truck Two Separate Times Within Minutes

California's Self-Driving Robotaxi Dream May Be In Jeopardy

Google's Waymo Recalled Over 400 Self-Driving Cars After December's Collisions In Phoenix To Deploy OTA Fix, NHTSA Reveals

Waymo’s application to expand California robotaxi operations paused by regulators

Leadership

Dmitri Dolgov

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

Tekedra N. Mawakana

(Co-CEO, not founder)

Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.

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