Staff Tech Lead, ML Data Infrastructure and Inference Platform

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.

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

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.

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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.