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Base Salary
$213k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap for ML-powered pickup and dropoff features from problem definition through launch.
- Train, evaluate, and deploy ML models for occupancy detection, rider-vehicle interactions, pullover selection, and lost and found.
- Design fallback systems between onboard and offboard models based on latency, confidence, and connectivity.
- Build distributed systems spanning vehicles, cloud services, and rider apps that handle intermittent and inconsistent connectivity.
- Work across data pipelines, model serving, backend services, and client integration to ship end-to-end user-facing features.
- Define success metrics and measure service-quality and rider-experience impact through offline evaluation, simulation, and live experiments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience, including building and deploying ML models into production.
- Experience building backend distributed systems.
- Preferred: experience with C++.
- Preferred: master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience developing machine learning models, infrastructure, and pipelines.
- Preferred: experience deploying models on-device or on edge hardware with compute and latency constraints.
- Preferred: experience owning ambiguous, user-facing problems end-to-end and setting technical direction.
- Preferred: experience in autonomous vehicles or robotics.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule.
- Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- 401(k) with company match.
- 20 days of vacation per year for the first five years of employment.
- 40 hours of sick time per year where applicable, with five days per event discretionary.
- 28–30 weeks of maternity leave through short-term disability and baby bonding leave.
- 18 weeks of baby bonding leave.
- 13 paid holidays per year.
- Remote employment may not be available in all US locations.
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About Waymo
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.