Waymo · 2 months ago
Principal Software Engineer, ML Systems
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$332K/yr - $421K/yr
15+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Principal Software Engineer in ML Systems will work closely with Perception engineers to enhance ML development workflows and drive multi-year roadmaps for Perception model systems, ensuring optimal performance and collaboration across teams.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Work closely with Perception engineers and build a deep understanding of the ML development workflows and systems, their requirements in order to achieve the desired development velocity, key systems constraints (latency, scale, budget, etc.). Such systems include: large-scale data extraction for model training, large model training pipelines, model inference systems, etc
Work closely with all the infrastructure teams that Perception model systems are built upon, to ensure optimal sharing of infrastructure and optimal performance for scaling and achieving efficient and large-scale model development
Drive multi-year roadmaps on the Perception model systems, with the anticipated scale driven by business and technology roadmaps, as well as engineering efficiency
Work with both the infra teams and Perception model teams on system designs
Drive effective collaborations and execution among perception teams and infrastructure teams
Qualification
Required
15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with extensive experience in a technical leadership role
Track record of designing and building large-scale systems supporting model development (data, training, inference), with very large-scale data, and very large worker payload
Track record in solving users' needs end to end - working closely with the model engineers, and working backwards from the user / product needs to design and evolve the systems
Organizational awareness, extremely collaborative, strong communication, focus on value add to the company and to the team
Preferred
Experienced at driving cross-org efforts in transitioning large systems through major evolutions while supporting high production demands
Experienced at modern ML data, training, and inference systems for large models
Experienced at budget management (compute, storage, memory, etc.) supporting workflows for O(hundred) model developers
Track record coaching and growing engineers and leaders
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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