Staff Software Engineer, Waymo
ML Modeling Infrastructure
$226-286k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Autonomous driving technology
Job no longer available
Autonomous driving technology
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$226-286k
+ Bonus + Equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it simpler and safer for people to move things and themselves around.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry experience
- Demonstrated expertise in C++ or Python
- Understanding of large-scale distributed systems, from design to implementation
- Hands-on experience in model development
- Experience leading in a complex product
- Experience in Robotics or Machine Learning
Desirable
- Familiarity with Google Infrastructure: Flume, Spanner, Borg, Tensorflow, JAX, or Guitar
- Experience deploying large-scale production systems with many ML models
- Experience optimizing High-Performance systems
- Experience with HLO, Triton, GPU, or TPU optimization
- Experience with PyTorch
What the job involves
- As Perception builds on advancements in Foundation Models and new technologies, you will focus on building systems and leading cross organizationally to enable a transition to foundation models
- Report to the leader of the Perception Scalability team, design and implement shared data and modeling infrastructure
- Lead cross organizationally and communicate both up and downstream
- Build systems to land an on the team's ML roadmap
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Design and other teams across Waymo
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009. After initial development, it secured permits to deploy autonomous ride-hailing services in cities including Phoenix and San Francisco, but has recently hit a major bump in the road with safety concerns that resulted in a recall of over 400 self-driving cars.
With the autonomous driving industry already besieged by setbacks and public distrust, this development does Waymo no favours. That said, as an industry leader there remains the possibility it will see out the storm, but massive attention will need to be given to rebuilding trust with consumers if this is to be the case.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$2.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2020
$750m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $5.5bn
Company values
- Our customers are at the heart of everything we do
- Safety is our foundation
- We pioneer
- Act with thoughtful urgency
- Respect each other
- Be responsible owners
- We’re stronger together
- Optionality creates opportunities
- Always be learning
- Celebrate progress
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Founders
Dmitri Dolgov
(Co-CEO, not founder)Former CTO of the company. After a PhD at the University of Michigan, they worked as a Stanford Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Toyota Research Institute. They also spent 8 years at Google as a Software Engineer.
Tekedra N. Mawakana
(Co-CEO, not founder)Has worked at Waymo since 2017, as Global Head of Policy then CXO then COO before becoming Co-CEO. They are on the Board of Advisors at Operator Collective, Board of Directors at Intuit, and an Advisor for Boom Supersonic.
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