Senior Architect & Tech Lead – Onboard ML & Simulation

Waymo; California (MO); On-site; USD 251,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity incentive plan

Generous benefits program

Job summary

Waymo is seeking a seasoned software leader to architect onboard model consolidation across subsystems, building a flexible framework for model integration and inference. You will drive ML deployment, collaborate with model teams, and advance onboard compute strategies across Waymo Driver platforms.

The role focuses on large-scale C++ software architecture for mission-critical systems, with emphasis on performance, reliability, and cross-functional leadership within a cutting-edge autonomous

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience on large scale products.
• Extensive experience designing and building large-scale, high-performance C++ software architecture for mission-critical systems or ML inference.
• Proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional engineering projects as a technical lead.
• Deep understanding of ML deployment, inference frameworks, and associated developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the software architecture and infrastructure development for onboard model consolidation across many onboard subsystems.
• Design and build an onboard framework to support flexible and efficient model integration and inference in Waymo’s onboard and simulation environments.
• Spearhead the alignment and unification of model’s data generation subsystem between model training data preparation and model inference.
• Develop Simulation solutions to enable robust testing and efficient evaluation/validation to enable good developer experience for consolidated model development.
• Embedded deeply with model teams to drive the productionization of unified models.
• Establish new software development best practices and technologies to accelerate model development and releases.

Skills

C++ architecture

Large-scale systems

ML inference

Technical lead

Embedded/onboard

Education

BS/MS in CS/EE/Robotics/Physics/Math

Tools

ML deployment tooling

Simulation frameworks

Job description

Waymo is seeking a seasoned software leader to architect onboard model consolidation across subsystems, building a flexible framework for model integration and inference. You will drive ML deployment, collaborate with model teams, and advance onboard compute strategies across Waymo Driver platforms.

The role focuses on large-scale C++ software architecture for mission-critical systems, with emphasis on performance, reliability, and cross-functional leadership within a cutting-edge autonomous