Waymo
Senior Software Engineer, Bulk/Interactive Inference
$213K–$263K
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Dec 16, 2025
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Develops and maintains Waymo’s scalable, high-throughput, low-latency inference platform and integrates model inference across ML workflows.
What you'll do
- Develop the inference platform for scalability, throughput, and low latency.
- Partner with teams to host internal and external ML models, including LLMs, and improve inference efficiency to increase throughput and reduce costs.
- Deploy and integrate inference solutions for distillation, evaluation, dataset generation, active learning, and auto-labeling.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
- Experience programming C++.
- Experience building highly scalable distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Passion for building internal infrastructure and tools.
- Experience building model hosting and inference solutions; experience handling datasets on the order of exabytes.
Pay
$213,000 — $263,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, LLMs
AI focus
Build and optimize inference hosting for ML models, including LLMs, and support distillation, evaluation, dataset generation, active learning, and auto-labeling.
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