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Waymo · 5 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, ML Frameworks & Efficiency

positionMountain View, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$238K/yr - $302K/yr
date8+ years exp

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work on ML frameworks and efficiency, focusing on improving compute efficiency for autonomous driving software and collaborating with ML modeling teams to enhance model training and inference.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
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Responsibilities

Develop new neural model architectures (e.g., sparse architectures), decoding strategies (e.g., speculative decoding), etc. for improving training/inference performance on modern TPU and GPU architectures
Improve accelerator FLOPS efficiency of ML workload, including improving compiler optimizations (e.g. XLA), authoring low-level kernels (e.g. Pallas, Triton, etc.) and enabling low-precision computation
Optimizing ML systems for high performance on TPUs and GPUs clusters, including reducing communication overhead and memory consumption, ensuring scalability and reliability across distributed environments
Evaluate and integrate open source community and Google SOTA technologies to enhance the performance and scalability of ML workloads
Promote best practices for distributed systems architecture and contribute to technical leadership within the team

Qualification

ML frameworksDistributed systems designPythonC++TensorFlowJAXXLAProfiling toolsNeural model architecturesTechnical leadership

Required

B.S. in Computer Science, Math, or 8+ years equivalent real-world experience
Proficient in distributed systems design with an understanding of ML efficiency
Experience with ML frameworks, including TensorFlow, JAX, XLA
Solid programming skills in Python and C++
Practical familiarity with profiling tools to uncover performance bottlenecks

Preferred

MS in Computer Science, Math
Familiarity with ML frameworks like Pallas and Triton

Benefits

Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program

Company

Waymo

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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.
dateFounded in 2009
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://waymo.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$11.1B
Key Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M

Leadership Team

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Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Annabel Chang
Head of State Policy & Government Relations
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