Waymo
Staff Tech Lead, ML Data Infrastructure and Inference Platform
$251K–$310K
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
About the job
Leads development of Waymo’s ML data infrastructure and inference platform to support ML Flywheels, onboard and offboard models, and large-scale training, evaluation, and inference.
What you'll do
- Build and contribute to the data infrastructure platform and ecosystem.
- Partner with modeling teams to understand data needs and onboard ML Flywheels to the centralized data store.
- Lead, mentor, and guide engineers delivering and adopting the infrastructure.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience tech leading projects with high cross-team collaboration.
- Experience tech leading engineers on complex projects.
- C++ programming experience, scalable distributed systems experience, and experience with ML Data and ML Flywheels.
Nice to have
- Experience handling datasets on the order of exabytes.
- Experience building ML infrastructure, model hosting or inference infrastructure, or production services with high QPS.
Pay
$251,000 — $310,000 USD base salary
Tools
C++
AI focus
Builds ML data and inference infrastructure for training, evaluation, and bulk and online inference, supporting onboard and Foundation Models and ML Flywheels.
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