Tech Lead — Self-Driving Evaluation Infra

Waymo; California (MO); On-site; USD 281,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity incentives

Benefits program

Job summary

Waymo is seeking an exceptional leader to provide technical leadership and architectural vision for the core data platforms powering its insights and decision-making. This role shapes how Waymo leverages data to understand complex scenarios, measure progress, and deploy autonomous technology safely and effectively worldwide.

You will lead architectural design for a Single Source of Truth data lake and drive data contracts, governance, and interoperability across multiple teams including

Qualifications

• Proven track record of setting technical vision and delivering data projects as a tech lead.
• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and communicate with senior leadership.
• Extensive experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed data systems.
• Deep expertise in data governance, metadata, lineage and data quality at scale.
• Strong designing of data-centric APIs, schemas and data contracts.
• Proficiency in SQL and one of C++/Java/Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and technical strategy for core data platforms.
• Establish data governance frameworks across the data ecosystem.
• Identify inefficiencies and drive improvements in data development lifecycles.
• Serve as a lead technical liaison with Simulation, Onboard, ML and Commercialization teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and champion best practices in data engineering.

Tools

F1 Query

Napa

Flume

Plx

BigQuery

Cloud Dataflow

Job description

Waymo is seeking an exceptional leader to provide technical leadership and architectural vision for the core data platforms powering its insights and decision-making. This role shapes how Waymo leverages data to understand complex scenarios, measure progress, and deploy autonomous technology safely and effectively worldwide.

You will lead architectural design for a Single Source of Truth data lake and drive data contracts, governance, and interoperability across multiple teams including