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Principal Software Engineer, ML Flywheel Technical Lead

2 weeks, 5 days ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
Computer Vision Deep Learning LLM Machine Learning
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Waymo

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company building the Waymo Driver and operating Waymo One, its fully autonomous ride-hailing service.

Autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI, ride-hailing / mobility tech
Founded 2009
$21600M raised
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Description

  • Architect an automated self-improvement loop that incorporates every autonomous mile into the Waymo Driver’s data pipeline.
  • Enable the data flywheel for scalable pre-training, targeted post-training, simulation, and validation.
  • Enable the modeling flywheel to consume data and produce updated, deployable models with minimal human toil.
  • Coordinate cross-functional work with data, ML infrastructure, resource planning, logging, modeling, and validation teams.
  • Provide tooling and metrics to steward data quality across mining, selection, and curation.
  • Define the strategy for integrating third-party and synthetic data into the improvement flywheel.
  • Drive improvements across Driver quality, scalability, cost, engineering velocity, model architecture, and performance.
  • Collaborate closely with infrastructure, modeling, and evaluation teams to improve the full ML lifecycle.

Requirements

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of experience in ML model development.
  • 2+ years of experience with large-scale vision, video, or multimodal foundation model development and integration in end-to-end models.
  • 6+ years of experience in ML-driven production systems with large-scale data, training, evaluation, and deployment.
  • 6+ years of experience in a technical leadership role setting technical direction and leading technical teams in large ML engineering organizations.
  • Demonstrated expertise in large-scale machine learning, including pre-training, post-training, and validation.
  • Deep understanding of both infrastructure and quality aspects of machine learning systems.
  • Track record of architecting and scaling a machine learning flywheel for mission-critical applications.
  • Experience improving model quality through systematic data scaling and curation.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire, influence, and coordinate across functions and disciplines.
  • Preferred: PhD in computer science.
  • Preferred: Experience in multimodal LLM model development and related infrastructure.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with multi-task, end-to-end models and their development challenges.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $332,000 to $421,000 USD.
  • Eligibility for Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Eligibility for Waymo’s equity incentive plan.
  • Access to Waymo’s generous company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

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