Waymo

Senior Software Engineer, Simulation ML Infrastructure

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10 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$204k - $259k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop advanced AI/ML infrastructure for multi-billion-parameter foundation models used in realistic, multi-agent simulations.
  • Drive architectural decisions and own large, complex systems that meet technical and business objectives.
  • Design and scale distributed systems for planet-scale dataset generation, model training, and evaluation across the ML lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with research engineering and realism modeling teams to use foundation models to improve simulation realism.
  • Derive performance and system-level requirements for large ML systems and translate business goals into measurable technical deliverables.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years developing, designing, scaling, training, deploying, or optimizing large-scale machine learning systems.
  • Experience with machine learning infrastructure tools such as DeepSpeed, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Ray, or similar frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of state-of-the-art machine learning models and algorithms, including autoregressive transformers, and experience scaling large models with ML accelerator profiling tools.
  • Experience driving ambiguous technical problems end-to-end and building infrastructure, libraries, tools, and pipelines for engineers and scientists.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to broad audiences.
  • Practical familiarity with autonomous driving, simulations, and ML accelerators is preferred.

Benefits

  • Eligible for a discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Full-time position available across US locations; remote availability and location-specific salary ranges are discussed during the hiring process.

Tech Stack

PyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

BackendData EngineeringML Engineering
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About Waymo

1,001-5,000 employees

Waymo develops the Waymo Driver, a full-stack autonomous driving system, and operates the Waymo One robotaxi service that offers paid, driverless rides in select U.S. cities. The company monetizes through ride-hailing fares and partnerships integrating its technology on multiple vehicle platforms. Founded in 2009 as Google’s self-driving project, Waymo is headquartered in Mountain View and is an Alphabet subsidiary, with over 10 million rider-only trips and 100+ million autonomous miles on public roads.

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