Waymo · 3 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, ML Frameworks & Efficiency
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$238K/yr - $302K/yr
8+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to be the world's most trusted driver. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work with the ML Frameworks & Efficiency team, focusing on optimizing distributed ML systems and improving compute efficiency for autonomous driving software.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Optimize distributed ML systems for high performance on TPUs and GPUs clusters, and applying SPMD, MPMD, FSDP, etc techniques to scale our model training
Improve accelerator FLOPS efficiency of ML workload, including improving compiler optimizations (e.g. XLA), authoring low-level kernels (e.g. Pallas, Triton, etc.) and enabling low-precision computation
Develop new neural model architectures (e.g., sparse architectures), decoding strategies (e.g., speculative decoding), etc. for improving training/inference performance on modern TPU and GPU architectures
Evaluate and integrate open source community and Google SOTA technologies to enhance the performance and scalability of ML workloads
Promote best practices for distributed systems architecture and contribute to technical leadership within the team
Qualification
Required
B.S. in Computer Science, Math, or 8+ years equivalent real-world experience
Proficient in distributed systems design with an understanding of ML efficiency
Experience with ML frameworks, including TensorFlow, JAX, XLA
Solid programming skills in Python and C++
Practical familiarity with profiling tools to uncover performance bottlenecks
Preferred
MS in Computer Science, Math
Familiarity with ML frameworks like Pallas and Triton
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$27.1BKey Investors
Alphabet,Dragoneer Investment Group,DST Global,Sequoia CapitalAlphabetFidelity,Perry Creek Capital,T. Rowe Price
2026-02-02Series D· $16B
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Annabel Chang
Director of U.S. State and Local Public Policy and Political Campaigns
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