Senior ML Compiler Engineer - Hybrid, AI Acceleration

Waymo; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Waymo's Compute Team is hiring a software engineer to advance the performance of our autonomous driving stack on a hybrid schedule in New York. You will work on a high-performance compiler+ ML inference platform and collaborate with hardware architects and model developers.

The role requires strong C++ skills and 3+ years in compilers for parallel architectures, plus experience with ML inference. We value agentic AI acceleration and a drive to ship production-quality software.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience and 5+ years of industry experience OR
• MS degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering and 3+ years of industry experience
• PhD degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering and 1+ years of industry experience
• 3+ years experience working on compilers for parallel architectures
• 1+ years experience working with ML inference or linear algebra computation
• C++ programming skills, including leveraging agentic AI acceleration

Responsibilities

• Leverage agentic AI to accelerate analysis, planning and implementation of production software improvements
• Analyze the performance characteristics of code generated by our production grade compiler, and design and implement optimizations to improve that performance
• Design and implement compiler support for novel features of our high-performance architecture
• Work with hardware architects to understand and influence the development of our unique neural network inference platform through hardware/software codesign
• Work with model developers to tune their neural networks for better inference efficiency and accuracy

Skills

C++ programming

Agentic AI acceleration

Education

BS in CS/EE or equivalent

MS in CS/EE

PhD in CS/EE

Job description

Waymo's Compute Team is hiring a software engineer to advance the performance of our autonomous driving stack on a hybrid schedule in New York. You will work on a high-performance compiler+ ML inference platform and collaborate with hardware architects and model developers.

The role requires strong C++ skills and 3+ years in compilers for parallel architectures, plus experience with ML inference. We value agentic AI acceleration and a drive to ship production-quality software.