Waymo

Staff Tech Lead, ML Data Infrastructure and Inference Platform

Waymo • $251K — $310K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proven track record of tech leading cross-functional projects
  • Experience leading a team on complex engineering projects
  • Proficient in C++ programming
  • Skilled in building highly scalable distributed systems
  • Familiar with ML Data and ML Flywheels

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of Waymo's ML data infrastructure platform
  • Collaborate with various teams to assess data infrastructure needs
  • Mentor and guide engineers in efficiently onboarding to the data infrastructure
  • Ensure seamless adoption of infrastructure components by teams
  • Contribute to the enhancement of data quality and freshness

Benefits

  • Participation in an annual bonus program
  • Opportunity to engage with equity incentive plans
  • Eligibility for a comprehensive company benefits package
Full Job Description
The ML Data Infrastructure and Inference Platform team owns the Data as well as the Data infrastructure for all ML Flywheels at Waymo. We do this via a planet scale centralized feature store for all ML training and evaluation, the feature extraction framework as well the inference platform for generating the data via bulk and online inferences. The objective of the team is to deliver data necessary for all our onboard as well Foundation Models to make the ML Flywheel successful and in turn lead to the successful scaling of Waymo. The team is highly collaborative and closely works with all modeling teams within Waymo.

You will:
  • As a Tech Lead you'll build, lead and contribute to Waymo's ML data infrastructure platform to enable planet scale ML Flywheel for all ML models at Waymo via data store and data infra ecosystem.
  • Work closely with teams across Waymo both onboard & offboard Foundation models, to understand the data infra needs, data distributions, data quality, data value, freshness and onboard these flywheels onto our planet scale data store and ensure the seamless adoption and guide the development of our infra components.
  • You will closely lead, mentor and guide a team of engineers to build and onboard teams to the infrastructure efficiently.
  • The team has a large surface area and scope in terms of impact, cross team collaboration and direct interaction with ML models at Waymo.

You have:
  • 6+ years of professional experience in the field of software engineering
  • Experience tech leading projects with high cross team collaboration
  • Experience tech leading a team of engineers on complex projects
  • Experience in programming C++
  • Experience with building highly scalable distributed system
  • Experience with ML Data and ML Flywheels

We prefer:
  • Passionate about Data and building ML infra & tools
  • Experience Tech leading projects, cross functional projects
  • Experience with handling large datasets in the order of exabytes
  • Experience building machine learning infrastructure and model hosting / inference infrastructure
  • Experience with production services with high QPS.

#LI-Hybrid

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Salary Range

$251,000-$310,000 USD

About Waymo

Waymo LLC is a self-driving technology development company. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and provides ride-hailing services through its Waymo One program. The company has been testing its self-driving technology on public roads since 2009 and has logged millions of miles of autonomous driving. Waymo has partnerships with several automakers and has been working on developing autonomous trucks for use in logistics.
Learn more about Waymo
Size
2,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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