Waymo · 3 months ago
Senior Software Engineer, Perception Data Primary
Mountain View, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $216K/yr
5+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Senior Software Engineer, Perception Data Primary will design and improve large-scale data pipelines, deploy and maintain data flows, and apply ML techniques to support the development of perception models for the Waymo Driver.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Design and improve large-scale data pipelines that serve ML and research teams
Deploy and maintain data flows for reliable, high-quality dataset delivery
Apply ML techniques (e.g., embeddings, active learning) for data search and curation
Build tools for scalable data mining and offboard inference
Work to accelerate new model deployment across cities and platforms
Qualification
Required
C++ programming skills (required), with Python experience
5+ years of experience with large-scale data systems (e.g., Spark, Beam, or Dataflow), or PhD and 3+ years
Background in ML data engineering, data curation, or active learning
Experience building and maintaining end-to-end ML data pipelines
Collaboration skills with model, infra, and product teams
Preferred
Experience with vector search (Faiss, ScaNN) or RAG systems
Knowledge of ML infra for foundation model training and evaluation
Familiarity with data-centric AI (few-shot, fine-tuning, pre-training)
Background in autonomous systems or robotics
MS/PhD or published work in ML or large-scale data systems
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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