Waymo is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. Since our start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been focused on building the World’s Most Experienced Driver in hopes of improving the world's access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. Our Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, our autonomous ride-hailing service, as well as Waymo Via, our trucking and local delivery service. To date, Waymo has driven over 20 million miles autonomously on public roads across 25 U.S. cities and conducted over 15 billion miles of simulation testing.
ML Platform team at Waymo provides a set of tools and technologies to support and automate the lifecycle of the machine learning workflow, including feature and experiment management, and model development, debugging & evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. These efforts have resulted in making machine learning more accessible to teams at Waymo, including Perception, Behavior Prediction, Planner, Routing, Maps and Research, ensuring greater degrees of consistency and repeatability, and addressing the “last mile” of getting models into production and managing them once they are in place. We work hand in hand with machine learning experts in all parts of the company as well as our collaborators across Alphabet.
We are looking for a strong TL/TLM who is passionate about enabling machine learning at Waymo.
In this leadership role, you'll:
- Lead a small team of software engineers that design, develop, maintain and improve software
- Work closely with our users to understand their needs and address their pain points
- Act as a sounding board and technical architect for your teams, help define technical vision and strategy
- Guide all technical aspects of development, including technical requirements definition, design, implementation, unit testing, and integration
- Work closely with engineering partners and stakeholders to drive organizational alignment
- Attract, grow, and retain a diversity of talent, providing technical direction and career growth opportunities
Minimum qualifications
- Experience managing projects across multiple teams
- Experience managing, mentoring, and coaching senior engineers
- Experience building and architecting large-scale, production quality systems, especially in applied machine learning
- Passionate about self-driving technology and its potential impact on the world
- BS, MS or PhD in CS, Math, or equivalent real-world experience
- 3+ years as Tech Lead or Manager
- Technical experience in any of the following:
- Distributed training / metrics evaluation
- Scalable ML data platform (dataset management, validation, feature engineering, versioning etc.)
- ML Frameworks (TensorFlow, Pytorch etc.) development
We appreciate your interest in Waymo. Waymo is an equal employment opportunity employer. Waymo’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law. Waymo also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. Waymo will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. Waymo also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
