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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Waymo ML Frameworks & Efficiency team partners closely with Research and Production teams across Waymo to develop and deploy models in Perception and Planning that are core to our autonomous driving software. We help our partners by offering the best frameworks for the entire model development lifecycle, including training and evaluation. They are geared towards both scaling models with efficiency and solving problems unique to ML for autonomous driving. We are looking for engineers with ML system expertise to help us train, evaluate and improve pre-trained models to be deployed into Waymo Driver, and potential future products. You'll work closely with researchers and modeling engineers across the company, and tackle the challenges of different evaluation scenarios for Waymo drivers, building large-scale evaluation platforms that can scale across compute, data, and environments to improve model intelligence and alignment with human drivers. You Will: Design and build distributed evaluation platforms for large-scale ML evaluation workloads. Profile evaluation platforms, identify performance bottlenecks (CPU, memory, I/O, network), and implement optimizations to improve inference speed and resource utilization. Collaborate with ML engineers to understand evaluation requirements and scenarios, and improve DevX of the evaluation infrastructure. Improve runtime goodput of ML inference workload and efficiency of metrics computations, ensuring scalability and reliability across distributed environments. Implement and maintain advanced ML infrastructure tools, including ML Pathways, JAX, Flume and TensorFlow. You Have: B.S. in Computer Science, Math, or 3+ 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. We Prefer: MS in Computer Science, Math Familiarity with large-scale evaluation platforms for LLMs. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $238,000-$302,000 USD

The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for building robust and scalable data infrastructure to join our Data Platform team. In this role, you'll design and develop the foundational systems that power the flow of data across the company, enabling fast insights and smarter decisions as we grow. Our mission is to create a platform that turns raw information into actionable intelligence - efficiently, reliably, and at scale. If you're excited about building the backbone of a data-driven organization and thrive in a space where engineering excellence meets real-world impact, we'd love to talk. Your Impact Design and build resilient systems for real-time data movement, processing, and storage Scale data infrastructure to support our rapidly growing business needs Unlock actionable insights by enabling seamless, governed access to high-quality, trustworthy data Drive innovation in data ingestion, transformation, and delivery across the company Establish best practices that balance performance, flexibility, and governance at scale We're Looking for Someone Who Has a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field 3+ years in data infrastructure Has strong programming skills, preferably in Python or Java Has expertise with cloud data lakes such as Snowflake or Databricks Has experience with streaming and big data processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Spark) Is experienced with workflow orchestration systems (e.g., Apache Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) Has implemented CDC solutions (e.g., Debezium, Maxwell) Has experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) Nice to Haves Exposure to data governance, PII handling, or policy-driven access control - e.g., RBAC at scale, SQL-level data masking, or policy compiler / lineage systems About Otter.ai We are in the business of shaping the future of work. Our mission is to make conversations more valuable. With over 1B meetings transcribed, Otter.ai is the world's leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla. Otter.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants throughout the hiring process. Accessibility & Accommodations Otter.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our hiring process. If you need assistance or an accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process, please contact at least 3 business days before your interview. Otter.ai does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies without a written agreement in place for permanent placements. Any resume or other candidate information submitted outside of established candidate submission guidelines (including through our website or via email to any Otter.ai employee) and without a written agreement otherwise will be deemed to be our sole property, and no fee will be paid should we hire the candidate. Salary range Salary Range: $155,000 to $185,000 USD per year. This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package.

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Configurations team is dedicated to ensuring Waymo's cars drive with the desired features based on the car's current state (location, driving mode etc). We are also responsible for managing release deployments to our fleet of cars. The team works with different parts of the company to achieve its mission - other engineering teams to validate and roll out new features, release organization for managing qualifications and deployments, operations for ensuring stability of configurations and validating so that we don't mistakenly drive with incorrect configurations and so on. You will: Design, implement, and maintain the large-scale backend services that deliver configurations and features to a large, real-world fleet of autonomous vehicles. Help build and evolve one or more mission-critical commercialization tools and systems as we scale and serve new markets. Collaborate with Product, Ops, Data Science, and other teams to develop systems as our needs grow and evolve Implement robust configuration rollout processes to manage the complexity of updating the fleet of Waymo vehicles as we scale up and deploy in new markets. Enable launching new features in a safe way - evaluation, A/B testing, gradual rollouts. You have: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience. 3+ years of experience working on large-scale distributed systems. Proven track record of driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries and the ability to partner across organizational boundaries to optimize workflows and drive strategic alignment. Strong ability to document technical designs, processes, and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams. A commitment to system safety and reliability, with experience in developing mechanisms to detect and prevent the impact of configuration or software failures in a high-stakes environment. We prefer: Interested in interacting with other teams to understand their needs and propose infrastructure solutions. Experience with C++. Track record of successfully executing forward looking ambitious bets. Familiarity with Google infrastructure (e.g. Borg, Protocol Buffers, Spanner). The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $175,000-$215,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Waymo ML Infrastructure team works with Research and Production teams to develop models in Perception and Planning that are core to our autonomous driving software. We help our partners by offering the best solutions for the entire model development lifecycle. These solutions are developed in close collaboration with teams at Google. They are geared towards both scaling models and solving problems unique to ML for autonomous driving. You will improve the runtime efficiency of input data pipelines for large-scale training workloads. This is a unique opportunity to work on ML systems and improve on our model training processes. You Will: Design, and improve distributed input data pipelines for large-scale ML training workloads. Collaborate with researchers and ML engineers to resolve bottlenecks in data pipeline performance. Improve runtime goodput of ML training workload, including optimizing input data processing systems, ensuring scalability and reliability across distributed environments. Implement and maintain advanced ML infrastructure tools, including ML Pathways, Grain, JAX, and TensorFlow. Evaluate and integrate modern technologies to enhance the performance and scalability of ML systems. Promote best practices for distributed systems architecture and contribute to technical leadership within the team. You Have: B.S. in Computer Science, Math, or 5+ years equivalent real-world experience. Proficient in distributed systems design with an understanding of ML data pipeline optimization. Experience with ML frameworks, including TensorFlow and JAX. Hands-on experience libraries like Grain or tf.data service. Solid programming skills in Python and C++. Practical familiarity with profiling tools to uncover performance bottlenecks. We Prefer: MS in Computer Science, Math Familiarity with distributed dataflow frameworks like ML Pathways The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $238,000-$302,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Waymo Mapping team's goal is to build a high resolution map of the world to support safe autonomous driving. We work on creating the map using a combination of automatic and manual techniques and build the infrastructure to store, process, and distribute the map. Our team collaborates with several other Waymo teams that consume map data. In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager In this role, you will: Design, train, and deploy machine learning models to automate the creation of Waymo's HD maps, unlocking scale for the Waymo Driver. Apply and advance state-of-the-art ML techniques, including Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and other Generative AI approaches, to pioneer new solutions in mapping automation. Own the complete model development lifecycle, from data mining and processing to model training, evaluation, validation, and productionization. Collaborate closely with partner ML teams, such as Waymo Perception and Waymo AI Foundations, to adapt cutting-edge research into scalable, reliable, and production-grade solutions. You have: 8+ years of hands-on experience in Machine Learning, with a strong focus on computer vision and/or deep learning. Proficiency in at least one major deep learning framework (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX). Demonstrated experience owning problems end-to-end and working across various parts of the systems stack to deliver results. B.S. in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience. It's a Bonus if you have: M.S. or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. Familiarity with foundation models and techniques for model adaptation (e.g., few-shot learning, transfer learning, domain adaptation). A track record of publications in top-tier ML/CV conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV). Experience with C++. Direct experience with mapping or GIS is a bonus but not required. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $251,000-$310,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The ML Ops team, part of Waymo ML Platform team, builds tools and infrastructure to realize the ML flywheel at Waymo. This includes building automation and orchestration solutions to make complex ML workflows manageable and reliable. This team also partners closely with the modeling team to realize solutions to speed up developer velocity. We're looking for a software engineer to join the team to build and maintain the critical data and ML pipelines that powers ML development at Waymo. In this hybrid role, you will report to the Head of ML Platform- Senior Staff Software Engineer. You will: Develop Waymo's inference platform to make it scalable, high throughput, and low latency Work closely with other teams across Waymo in hosting both internal and external ML models, including LLMs Improving the efficiency of running inference on these large models to increase throughput and save cost Deploy and integrate model inference solutions across a variety of use cases, such as distillation, eval, dataset generation, active learning, and auto-labeling You have: 5+ years of professional experience in the field of software engineering Experience in programming C++ Experience with building highly scalable distributed system We prefer: Passionate about building internal infra and tools Experience with building model hosting and inference solutions Experience with handling datasets in the order of exabytes The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $213,000-$263,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Planner Evaluation team works on one of the key challenges in autonomous driving: measuring and improving the quality of the software that drives the car. We are looking for experienced data-minded software engineers and data scientists to help us improve how we characterize and evaluate changes to the Onboard software stack (Planner, Perception, etc). If you are passionate about autonomous vehicles and how to use rich, complex data to drive decision making, this is the role for you! This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to aSr. Staff Engineering Manager. You will: Develop signals to measure the performance and driving qualities of the Waymo driver, using a range of techniques including statistics, math, physics, algorithms and machine learning. Use simulation creatively and mine real world driving logs to measure driving performance. Design and implement methods to make a stronger connection between onboard software changes and simulated outcomes. Champion code health and best practices in a large and complex code base. Analyze data and make recommendations on how to improve metric quality and interpretability. Collaborate with other engineers, data scientists, statisticians and the leadership team to deliver evaluation products and help make data driven decisions. You have: BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area Strong self-motivation to navigate complex systems and pursue open-ended problems to completion 1+ years of industry experience with Navigating and modifying a large code base containing a variety of languages, such as C++, Python and SQL Performing statistical analyses Building data processing pipelines Writing, reviewing, and merging code following industry standards for code health and maintainability Quant/data fluency is a top requirement We prefer: Experience coding in C++ Experience with ML Experience with A/B experiment infrastructure Experience building and validating metrics to measure quality in complex systems Exposure to ad-hoc data analysis tools for rapid modeling and prototyping Experience working in the AV industry The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $170,000-$216,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Simulator Team at Waymo builds state-of-the-art simulations of realistic environments for testing and training the Waymo Driver. Your team will be a diverse, and collaborative group of machine learning (ML) engineers, software engineers and data scientists. We develop industry-leading simulation solutions using advanced ML algorithms that measure and enhance the performance of the Waymo Driver. We achieve those goals by jointly modeling the real world, including realistic agents (vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists), roads, traffic control systems, and weather conditions, and the full sensor suite including camera, Lidar and radars. To increase the fidelity, scalability and controllability of our simulations,we employ the latest ML technologies such as large language models, foundational world models, and reconstructive methods trained on large-scale datasets with both generative and reconstructive technologies, as well as traditional rendering approaches. In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Staff Engineering Manager. You will: Work closely with onboard and research engineers to scale simulation and enable critical Waymo milestones Support development, testing and evolution of mapping data in the simulator Improve / monitor the performance, scalability and the reliability of the simulator Design the long term architecture to fit the product to an increasing number of internal customers You have: Hands-on experience building a popular (internal- or external-facing) product. Experience on backend knowledge such as workflows, databases, SQL, production monitoring, etc. Strong in C++. We prefer: Experience with the release of software in a highly distributed heterogeneous execution environment Experience with systems programming (game engines, database, OS, distributed) Experience with ML Previous TL experience The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $251,000-$310,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Predictive Planning team (PrePlan) develops and deploys state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that predict the future state of the world and plan the Waymo Driver's behavior. Our mission is to transform Waymo's unprecedented scale of driving data into robust, generalizable, and performant deep neural networks. These models enable the autonomous vehicle to navigate complex environments safely and efficiently. In this hybrid role, you will report to a manager on our PrePlan team. Team matching happens after you've completed your onsite interviews. You will: Develop the next-generation ML-powered prediction and planning system to enhance the performance and capabilities of the ML driver and support the rapid scaling of Waymo's business. Frame open-ended, real-world challenges as well-defined ML problems; research, develop, and apply cutting-edge ML techniques, including foundation models and reinforcement learning, for the planning and prediction tasks of autonomous vehicles. Collaborate with world-class researchers, engineers and product owners to create safe, smooth planning behaviors for all road users and to meet product requirements. Develop and evaluate large models, and integrate them into Waymo's production planning software for real-world applications through close partnership with the Planner and Research teams. You have: BS in Computer Science, ML, Robotics, similar technical field of study 2+ years of experience in Machine Learning modeling and/or Autonomous Vehicles Demonstrated contributions to the ML community through publications, open-source projects, or significant industry impact Hands-on experience with modern deep learning libraries (eg: TensorFlow, JAX, Pytorch) Proficient programming skills (eg: Python, C/C++) Strong analytical and debugging skills We prefer: MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field Publications in top-tier conferences such as ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, IROS, CoRL, ACL, or EMNLP General software engineering experience solving motion planning or related robotics problems Experience applying or evaluating ML-based systems in production environments Experience with performance optimization of deep models, including with respect to specific hardware architectures The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $175,000-$215,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The RO Performance Team is accountable for the largest metrics system deployment in the AV industry. The team manages data pipelines that monitor Waymo's AV fleet in the real world at various latencies: from minutes to hours; supporting critical business decisions for deployments in new markets and identifying emergent business critical challenges. In addition, the same pipeline technologies are deployed for the virtual world to measure key outcomes from Waymo's massive scale simulations, generating insights to support new Driver releases. Important objectives for the next couple of years include: Reliably scaling as the business scales, Waymo is in its fast expansion phase and systems have to be built to support 100x growth. Timeliness: As Waymo's deployments accelerate across the globe, time to first detection needs to consistently improve. Comprehensive coverage: Expanding into new weather conditions and new markets brings new challenges. Increasing the metric and detection offerings to meet these challenges is key to achieving our business goals. The team works closely with many other teams such as: metrics development teams including large AI deployments, System engineers and Data scientists that produce definitions and quality controls, infrastructure and UI teams that support underlying capabilities, product teams to stay sensitive to changing business needs, and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams to maintain high system uptime. You Will: Be a part of the Event Insights sub-team, Once metric events, e.g., a hard brake occurred, are minted from heavy logs processing pipelines, an event lifecycle emerges where such events may get sent to other systems for further refinement, including but not limited to: human triage, VLM inference, clustering. Key workstreams that the TLM will be accountable for include: Clustering: Work on creation of a dynamic event clustering product to produce event clusters at low latency for rapid understanding of emerging issues during new deployments of the Waymo Driver in simulation or in the real world. Storage & APIs: Events need to be stored and queried by different downstream systems. Consumption APIs include pull or push based paradigms. Labels received from human triage or VLMs update existing events. Low Latency Orchestration: Gathering further event insights requires interaction with other systems at Waymo such as for human triage or large VLM inference. Orchestrating these interactions reliably and at low latency is key for meeting Waymo's challenges. Visualization: Work closely with partner UI teams to ensure that event insights can be delivered to end consumers and provide value for understanding the Waymo Driver's performance. You have: 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience, or a quantitative PhD with 2+ years of professional software engineering experience C++ proficiency Python familiarity SQL familiarity Excited about autonomous driving, Simulation + Eval We prefer: 7+ years of industry experience or 3+ years post-doc experience in a quantitative- or quality- focused engineering role in which you had experience as a technical lead for a team in which you were performing tasks like developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, processing data from experiments, synthesizing conclusions, and ensuring the long term stability and health of the production system. B.Sc. in Computer Science Experience working with large FAANG scale distributed systems. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $213,000-$263,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Simulator Team at Waymo builds state-of-the-art simulations of realistic environments for testing, training, and validation of the Waymo Driver. Our team is a diverse, and collaborative group of machine learning (ML) engineers, software engineers, and ML research engineers. We develop industry-leading simulation solutions using advanced generative and reconstructive ML algorithms, to model the real world, encompassing realistic agents, roads, traffic systems, weather, and the full sensor suite (Camera, Lidar, Radar). To accelerate the fidelity, scalability, controllability, and richness of our simulations, we are pushing the frontiers of 3D world modeling. We leverage state-of-the-art ML technologies trained on large-scale datasets to create dynamic and semantically rich virtual worlds, directly impacting the development and validation of the Waymo Driver. In this role, you will report to a Senior Staff Engineering Manager. You will: Lead the design, development and deployment of cutting-edge 4D world models and generative systems for ultra-realistic and controllable sensor and semantics generation for simulation use cases at waymo. Architect and implement scalable and robust ML pipelines for training, evaluating, and deploying large-scale generative models into our simulation infrastructure, including techniques like model distillation and quantization. Build and scale production-ready video generation techniques (e.g., Diffusion, Flow Matching) to create dynamic and interactive simulation environments. Apply Vision Language Models (VLMs) to enhance the semantic understanding and controllability of our world simulation products. Partner with world class research teams across Waymo and Alphabet to leverage State-of-The-Art research in 4D world modeling and generative AI into robust, production-ready solutions. Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers on the team. You have: MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field. 5+ years of experience in ML engineering and applied Deep Learning, with a strong portfolio of shipped products or publication record. Proven experience in developing and training large-scale generative models for video generation (e.g., Diffusion models, Flow Matching) or Vision Language Models (VLMs) and their applications. Deep expertise in 3D World Modeling or 3D computer vision. Familiarity with 3D reconstruction and rendering techniques (e.g., 3D Gaussian Splatting). Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML frameworks such as Jax/Flax, PyTorch or Tensorflow. We prefer: PhD and a strong track record of delivering impactful ML products in 3D generative models, world models, or video generation Experience in simulating sensor data (Camera, Lidar, Radar) and/or semantic scenes. Experience with autonomous systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicle simulation. Experience in training and optimizing large scale models on GPU/TPU clusters for efficient serving. Experience in C++ for production systems. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $213,000-$263,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Senior Security Engineer As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be a key contributor in establishing and maintaining robust cybersecurity for Waymo's innovative products and services. You will be responsible for evaluating system elements, defining comprehensive cybersecurity concepts, and performing threat analysis and risk assessments (TARA) in compliance with ISO/SAE 21434. You will define and manage security requirements, determine risk treatment approaches, and collaborate closely with engineering and safety teams throughout the product lifecycle to understand and mitigate practical security and safety implications. Your role will also involve ensuring continuous compliance with relevant standards across multiple projects. You will: Evaluate system elements and define item boundaries, considering their operational environments , and devise a comprehensive cybersecurity concept. Perform threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA) (e.g., Identify threats to assets, evaluate attack feasibility, impact rating, etc) in compliance with ISO/SAE 21434. Define and manage requirements and determine approaches for proper risk treatment for self-driving platform features that are based on TARA output. Work with Waymo engineering teams on understanding practical security risks, safety implications, and necessary mitigations, during the entire lifecycle of the product (e.g., concept, development, operation, and incident response) Partner with safety teams to evaluate safety impact and required interactions between standards defining cybersecurity and functional safety. Maintain compliance with standards during the entire lifecycle of multiple projects, and perform updates You have: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or similar A thorough understanding of performing cybersecurity threat and risk assessments on technical designs and architectures of embedded systems or other computer systems. A solid understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals (e.g., secure communications,security technologies, etc) and their practical deployments The ability to create & negotiate targets and requirements with Waymo engineering teams. We prefer: At least 5 years experience in an security (or similar industry) role delivering software and/or hardware Thorough understanding of security best practices Experience writing security requirements for engineering teams Experience designing security features Experience working with ISO/SAE 21434 certification and/or UNR 155 type approval The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $204,000-$259,000 USD

Who We Are Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that's why we're building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver , our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. About the Role Our software team is growing, and we are looking for talented engineers who are graduating by December 2026 to join us and be instrumental to one of the following areas: Data Platform, Onboard Systems, ML Infrastructure, Simulation, or Technical Infrastructure teams. About the Work Depending on your skill set and areas of interest you will work on some or all of the following: Data Platform: The Data Platform serves as a comprehensive management system for Nuro AI Driver's data, labels, and metrics, facilitating seamless access functionality. The team focuses on data annotation across various domains, including 2D/3D perception, mapping, behavior trajectory, and language/text. It also handles data ingestion and mining, employing methods such as heuristics and embedding search. Additionally, the platform supports the autonomy evaluation infrastructure by providing detailed introspection. Onboard Systems: Our onboard system team's software engineers provide a reliable and high-performance platform that allows our autonomy teams to integrate their autonomy software and algorithms that work across various self-driving platforms. This work requires close collaboration with our software teams, hardware teams, and systems/safety team to make sure new software and hardware work together safely and reliably and resolve onboard error and performance problems. Technical Infrastructure: this group owns few fundamental services for entire engineering organizations: generic compute platform to host mission-critical workflows such as data processing and simulation, storage management service which manages hundreds of PB of data, cloud infrastructure serves as IaaC which provisions and maintains all cloud resources, engineering productivity provides tools such as build and CI/CD to make engineering work more efficient. About You You have deep expertise and prior experience in some or many of the following areas: You are a current Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree candidate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field, graduating before December 2026. You have experience in one or more of the following areas: large-scale distributed systems; data storage and processing systems; advanced algorithms using C++ and Python; machine learning, multithreading; x86 architecture; and software performance tuning and optimization, robotics software frameworks, different compute modalities (CPU, GPU, FPGA) etc. You have strong problem-solving and programming skills. At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected base pay range is between $153,000 to $176,000 for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Hardware Engineering is a diverse, and collaborative group of electrical, mechanical, reliability, software and vehicle engineers. We design, build, and perfect the products which are the eyes and ears of Waymo's autonomous driving technology, and integrate those products into vehicle platforms. We're looking for curious and talented teammates to keep us moving in the right direction. The Embedded Simulation team enables Waymo to quickly and reliably scale the Waymo Driver across new vehicle & hardware platforms, and to accelerate development of our embedded and reliability software systems. We build both dedicated test properties for embedded and hardware use cases, and also incorporate our technology into full-system behavioral simulation. In this role, you will report to the Senior Director, R&D Software Engineering You will: Lead & manage team responsible for embedded HIL/SIL testing and simulation. Set strategy for expansion of test & sim infrastructure to support new products and Waymo's scale. Develop Waymo internal graph-based simulation framework in C++ and improve simulation realism by implementing models of a vehicle and environmental conditions. Combine past logged data with the output of the models running in a loop for a more representative simulation. Integrate SIL and HIL simulation with CI/CD pipelines. Ensure test & sim infrastructure is highly available and reliable. You have: Technical leadership of software teams. Strong knowledge of modern C++ Experience designing, implementing and maintaining production software systems Linux on advanced user level Familiarity in Electrical Engineering We prefer: People management experience Passion for HIL simulation Embedded programming experience Linux for real-time applications Knowledge of general-purpose and automotive network systems (Ethernet, CAN, etc.) Familiarity with the building blocks for datacenter monitoring systems (databases, dashboards, etc.) The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $281,000-$356,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Waymo Driver is performing well in more and more cities, with our scale rapidly accelerating. Our team's job is to ensure that we can continue to evaluate safety and service quality across new cities and countries, each with their unique challenges. We need an experienced, technically hands-on engineering manager with strong quantitative skills to lead a small team and work with partners to scale eval and ML development by exploring new methods and delivering tools for mining and sampling data.In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Staff manager. You will: Develop tools for easy mining of novel situations that might impact safety from our driving logs for use in evaluation and ML datasets, using a mixture of ML and structured data Advanced sampling techniques and tuning of simulations to get strong signal for metrics and models from our datasets Build automation for our mining and sampling ecosystem so Waymo can rapidly scale to new cities Make hands-on technical contributions to both engineering and data science-oriented projects Provide strong management and technical leadership for a small team of data science-friendly engineers Partner with leads and teams across Waymo to determine and execute on strategy, including product, engineering, data science, frontend, and backend You have: Strong engineering design and programming skills Strong data fluency and analysis skills Familiarity with statistical methods including hypothesis testing, experiment design, and sampling Familiarity with foundational and contemporary ML concepts and practices Experience managing teams of up to 8 people BS/MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math, or other quantitative area 7+ years of industry experience with: C++, SQL, and Python experience Navigating and modifying a large code base containing C++, SQL, and Python Building data processing pipelines We prefer: Eval experience, such as building and validating metrics to measure quality in complex systems Strong statistical background (MSc-level stats or similar expertise from work experience) Strong ML background (MSc-level ML or similar expertise from work experience) Experience working in the AV industry and/or with simulations The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $281,000-$356,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Waymo generates an unprecedented scale and complexity of data from billions of miles driven in simulation, millions on public roads, and the growing commercial operations. At the heart of achieving our mission lies the ability to deeply understand this data. World-class data analysis infrastructure is the bedrock of Waymo's success. It is absolutely critical for: Validating the safety and performance of the Waymo Driver. Accelerating research and development cycles across engineering, including Simulation, Onboard, and Machine Learning. Enabling data-driven decisions for our commercial operations and product strategy. Standardizing how we measure progress and compare performance across different contexts. The insights derived from our data platforms directly influence every aspect of our technology and business. We are looking for an exceptional technical leader to drive the vision and architecture of these vital systems. About the Role: We are seeking an exceptional a Leader to provide technical leadership and architectural vision for the core data platforms that power Waymo's insights and decision-making. This role is pivotal in shaping how Waymo leverages data to understand complex scenarios, measure progress, and ultimately deploy and operate our autonomous technology safely and effectively across the globe. You will be instrumental in tackling some of our most challenging data systems problems, from ensuring metrics consistency to building a scalable single source of truth for our ride-hail commercialization expansion. You will: Lead the architectural design and technical strategy for Waymo's core data platforms, encompassing a "Single Source of Truth" data lake for Commercialization and "Metrics Portability and Standardization" for Driver Evaluations. Establish and enforce comprehensive data governance frameworks across the data ecosystem, enabling easy data discoverability, and enhancing data quality. Identify and address inefficiencies in the data development lifecycle. Drive initiatives to improve developer productivity, streamline workflows, and enhance the overall effectiveness of the data engineering and metrics development functions in Waymo. Serve as a lead technical liaison, collaborating deeply with Simulation, Onboard, ML, and Commercialization teams to understand data needs, define data contracts, translate requirements into technical solutions, and ensure alignment on architectural direction. Mentor senior engineers, guide critical technical decisions, and champion best practices in data engineering, including system reliability, efficiency, developer experience, and innovation to address new challenges. You have: Proven track record of setting technical vision, driving multi-quarter roadmaps, and delivering impactful data projects as a technical lead for senior engineering teams, with demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical designs, trade-offs, and strategies to diverse stakeholders, including senior leadership and partner engineering, data scientists, and product teams. Extensive experience architecting, building, and operating complex, large-scale distributed data systems (e.g., data lakes, lakehouse, data mesh, streaming platforms, query engines). Deep expertise in designing and implementing data governance principles, including metadata systems, data lineage, data quality frameworks, and data discoverability solutions at scale. Strong experience in designing and evolving data-centric APIs, schemas, and data contracts to ensure system interoperability, portability, and long-term maintainability. Expertise in data pipeline and query engine development and proficiencies in writing both SQL and one of C++/Java/Python code language. We prefer: Familiarity with data from autonomous vehicle operations, logistics, or ride-hailing business domains. Experience with Google's data infrastructure and tools such as F1 Query, Napa, Flume, Plx, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data services such as BigQuery, Cloud Dataflow, etc. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $281,000-$356,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Predictive Planning team (PrePlan) develops and deploys state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that predict the future state of the world and plan the Waymo Driver's behavior. Our mission is to transform Waymo's unprecedented scale of driving data into robust, generalizable, and performant deep neural networks. These models enable the autonomous vehicle to navigate complex environments safely and efficiently. You will: Design, implement, and evaluate state-of-the-art generative models for autonomous vehicle planning and prediction Develop next-generation, ML-powered systems that enhance the capabilities of the ML driver and accelerate the rapid scaling of Waymo's business Translate open-ended, real-world driving challenges into well-defined machine learning problems, applying cutting-edge techniques, including foundation models and reinforcement learning Write high-quality, scalable, and thoroughly tested code to bring cutting-edge research into production Partner with world-class researchers, engineers, and product managers to deliver safe and smooth planning behaviors, and publish findings at top-tier academic venues You have: PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience A proven track record of publications in top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, IROS, RSS, CoRL, ACL, or EMNLP) Demonstrated impact on the broader ML community through influential research, widely adopted open-source projects, or significant industry contributions Hands-on expertise with modern deep learning frameworks, for example JAX or PyTorch Proficient programming skills in Python and/or C++, coupled with strong analytical and debugging abilities We prefer: Specialized research experience in deep learning, reinforcement learning, causal reasoning, or foundation models Prior industry experience (e.g. internships) in applied ML research or software development Domain expertise in solving motion planning, prediction, or related robotics problems Hands-on experience deploying, evaluating, and maintaining ML-based systems in real-world, production environments The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $175,000-$215,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Software Engineering in the Hardware organization is where software meets the physical world. You will work on critical systems that manage autonomous vehicle functions, with teams such as Sensing, Vehicle Integration, Positioning, Motion Control, Fault Management, Onboard Automation and Embedded Simulation. We are looking for strong generalist software engineers to work across a wide array of domains, including embedded, controls, sensor processing, manufacturing calibration, simulation, data analysis, and also building higher-level state machines, interfaces and flows for fault management and automation. You will have a direct & material impact on the ability of Waymo to scale to more vehicles and cities. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Software Engineer. You will: Develop high-quality vertically-integrated C++ software systems (on-vehicle and off-vehicle software) to manage autonomous vehicle functions. Analyze field data (logs) and simulation results. Participate in cross-functional workflows (e.g., requirement reviews, project planning). You have: Degree (BS, MS) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or similar or equivalent practical experience. At least 2+ years of professional experience developing production software in modern C++ (i.e., C+, C+, etc.) This role is specifically for C++ and not for C/C++. Experience in at least one of: real-time / embedded systems or complex / distributed systems. We prefer: Experience developing for and troubleshooting complex / distributed systems (e.g., vehicle gateway, backend software). In-depth understanding of microcontroller-based Embedded Systems and associated development and debugging tools. Working experience with safety critical systems / functional safety. Open source projects that demonstrate dedication to crafting high quality C++ software. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $170,000-$216,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The DUE Machine Learning team will build and operate scalable machine learning and data systems, simulation workflow and insight tools, improve and speed up the evaluation and onboard developer journeys. It will combine expert human judgements and advanced machine learning models to deliver training and evaluation data for hundreds of metrics and components that make up the Waymo Driver. We are looking for researchers and software engineers who are passionate about developing machine learning techniques. These techniques are for the Evaluation systems on our autonomous service. They will serve as a constant driver to improve the performance of our technology stack. You will: Grow the end-to-end strategy for our next generation of machine learning-based evaluation metrics, promoting scientific and statistical rigor across our embodied AI applications Architect and build scalable systems for training and fine-tuning large-scale generative models to produce realistic and evaluate interesting driving behaviors Lead the design, implementation, and iteration of novel RL algorithms, reward functions, and training paradigms tailored for generating high-fidelity and insightful driving behaviors Lead the development of cutting-edge Deep Learning models and Generative AI (LLM/VLM) solutions. These solutions will enhance human-led triaging, introduce automation for high-volume workflows, and perform nuanced analysis of self-driving behavior to detect critical anomalies Proactively monitor and assimilate best practices from within Alphabet and the broader industry to develop a novel Reinforcement Learning from Human Preference (RLHF) based data collection and evaluation system Provide technical mentorship, guidance, and thought leadership to other engineers within the team and across collaborating groups Guide and align multiple teams-including Driver Understanding, Simulation, System Engineering, Research, and Onboard Software-on a cohesive evaluation strategy, ensuring cross-functional alignment on goals and priorities You have: PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience 10+ years of hands-on experience in developing and applying Machine Learning models, with a significant focus on Reinforcement Learning 2+ years of people management experience Demonstrated expertise in deep learning, sequence modeling, and generative models Strong publication record or history of impactful project delivery in RL or related areas Proficiency in Python and standard ML frameworks (e.g., JAX, TensorFlow) Experience with large-scale distributed training and data processing Proven ability to lead complex and ambiguous technical projects from conception to completion We prefer: 12+ years of relevant experience in ML/RL research and application Experience in the autonomous vehicles domain, robotics, or complex simulation environments Deep understanding of state-of-the-art RL techniques, including those used for fine-tuning large models (e.g., from human feedback/preferences) Familiarity with large-scale simulation platforms and their integration with ML training workflows Experience designing and using metrics for evaluating complex AI systems Track record of technical leadership, influencing senior stakeholders, and driving innovation across team boundaries Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $281,000-$356,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the autonomously driving vehicle (ADV), i.e., the system that "perceives" the world around the car. We work jointly with downstream teams on the optimization and integration into the Waymo Driver. We conduct our own research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling engineers like you to (1) develop methods for efficiently and continuously learning from large scale real-world data, to (2) develop models and model training at scale, to (3) analyze real-world behavior and develop systems for handling the complexities of interacting with the real-world, and (4) optimize models for our onboard and offboard hardware. In this hybrid role you will report to a Technical Lead Manager. You will: Apply machine learning techniques to build multi-modal sensor fusion architectures and spatial-temporal representation learners for object detection and tracking, occupancy and semantic segmentation, road understanding, etc. Develop scalable recipes for large data, large model training running on Alphabet's compute infrastructure, create methods and recipes for pre-training and post-training. Develop methods and recipes for distributed fine-tuning enabling multiple developers to simultaneously improve the model, develop methods and recipes to avoid regression against a production system. Develop and maintain model evaluation recipes and metrics for measuring and improving performance of pre-trained and fine-tuned models You have: Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience 3+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision Experience with Python Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX We prefer: MS or PhD Degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science or a similar discipline Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI Experience with C++ The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $170,000-$216,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Waymo Onboard Infrastructure is responsible for low-level software and infrastructure on various components of the Waymo self-driving system. The team's scope covers everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth data logging, IPC (low-latency and high-throughput), performance analysis, and full-system debugging. We work with the Hardware, Compute, Sensor, Perception, Behavior and Machine Learning teams to build the most performant and low-latency self-driving solution in the industry. You will join the System Software Team and focus on the Telematics unit-the critical Linux-based gateway responsible for all data flow in and out of the autonomous vehicle. This includes vital functions like real-time diagnostics, over-the-air (OTA) software updates, and high-bandwidth telemetry. You will be essential in developing, securing, and maintaining the connectivity infrastructure that enables Waymo's fleet to operate and improve continuously. In this role you will: System Software Development: Work on a small team of System Software and Linux Kernel Engineers to design, develop, and deploy production-grade system software components for driverless vehicles, from initial prototyping through launch. Linux OS Ownership: Maintain and upgrade the operating system of the Telematics unit, including Linux kernel, device drivers, and core OS services. Networking & Connectivity: Design and implement robust, high-performance networking solutions, focusing on reliable data transfer over wifi and cellular modems. Infrastructure & Testing: Design and implement comprehensive testing methodology and infrastructure to ensure the reliability and security of low-level software and seamless deployment of updates across the fleet. Leverage automated testing of hardware to exercise low-level hardware-software systems. Cross-Functional Problem Solving: Collaborate effectively with hardware partners (SoC vendors, ODMs) and internal engineering teams to tackle ambiguous, cross-disciplinary system challenges. Network Topology: Contribute to the design and implementation of depot network topologies for efficient vehicle servicing. At a minimum, we'd like you to have: Education: BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Programming: Proficiency in C and C++ is required. Linux Expertise: 3+ years of experience developing, debugging, and deploying software in a Linux environment. Networking Fundamentals: A strong understanding of the IP-based networking stack and experience with its configuration and debugging in a Linux context. It's preferred if you have experience with: Embedded Linux: Experience with Embedded Linux build systems such as Yocto or Buildroot. Low-Level Software: Experience in Linux kernel and device driver development. Wireless Technologies: Working knowledge of Wi-Fi (especially in congested environments), cellular and Bluetooth protocols. Hardware Debugging: Working knowledge of hardware bring-up and debugging, including the ability to read schematics/datasheets and use common tools (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers). Testing Infrastructure: Experience building and maintaining testing infrastructure for OS, kernel, and other low-level code, including HIL testing stations. Vendor Collaboration: Experience successfully collaborating with diverse industry partners (CM, ODM, OEM, or ISV). The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $204,000-$259,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Driver Understanding and Evaluation (DUE) team at Waymo is developing rich metrics for understanding the behavior of the Waymo Driver in the real world, and technologies such as context and scene analysis to understand driving, understanding and augmenting real world driving data to generate rare driving events, build large scale data infrastructure, improve components such as agents and a realistic simulator. These technologies come together to drive the overall technical strategy and methodology used to evaluate the behavior of the Waymo Driver. The DUE Machine Learning team will build and operate scalable machine learning and data systems, simulation workflow and insight tools, improve and speed up the evaluation and onboard developer journeys. It will combine expert human judgements and advanced machine learning models to deliver training and evaluation data for hundreds of metrics and components that make up the Waymo driver. We are looking for researchers and software engineers who are passionate about developing machine learning techniques for the Evaluation systems on our autonomous vehicles, and have an incessant drive to improve the performance of our technology stack. You will: Lead the development of cutting edge Deep Learning and machine learning models to enhance human-led triaging and introduce automation for high-volume workflows Design and build Gen AI LLM/VLM solutions for self driving car behavior analysis and anomaly detection Proactively monitor and assimilate best practices from within Alphabet and the broader industry to develop a Reinforcement Learning from human preference-based data collection and evaluation system. Enhance User Feedback Analysis, collaborate seamlessly with product and business teams to design and implement tools for multi-label classifications, sentiment assessment, comment summarization, root cause analysis and trend analysis of rider feedback Oversee the production and optimization of machine learning models aiming to assess Waymo's expansive fleet of vehicles that cumulatively travel millions of miles. Drive technical direction, and provide technical inputs and guidance to the team. Work closely with PMs and TPMs to help define product requirements and align the technical agenda with the company's business objectives. Collaborate closely with multiple teams (e.g., Prediction, Planning, Research), other technical leads, and senior leaderships across Waymo to deliver on key strategic efforts. You have: B.S. in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience 7+ years of experience with hands-on experience in machine learning projects Strong coding experience in C++ and/or Python. Experience in at least one of: Foundational Models, VLM, Deep Learning Experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face's transformers, along with expertise in deep learning models and ML deployment at scale We prefer: M.S. or Ph.D. degree Computer Science or related quantitative field with a specialization of machine learning. 10+ years of experience with hands-on experience in machine learning projects Deep learning experience with Transformers Gen AI LLM/VLM experience Experience with building tools for applied machine learning, including MLOps, evaluation/validation techniques, and model performance optimization. Large-scale data processing and analytical skills. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $238,000-$302,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the self-driving car, i.e., the system that "perceives" the world around the car. We work jointly with downstream teams on the optimization and integration into the Waymo Driver. We conduct our own research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling engineers like you to (1) develop methods for efficiently and continuously learning from large scale real-world data, to (2) develop models and model training at scale, to (3) analyze real-world behavior and develop systems for handling the complexities of interacting with the real-world, and (4) optimize models for our onboard and offboard hardware. In this hybrid role, you'll report to a Staff Technical Lead Manager. You will: Lead the design and development of multi-sensor, multi-task model architectures for dense and complete scene understanding with a focus on key tasks including object detection, occupancy prediction, road understanding, and trajectory planning. Architect and develop the foundational modeling libraries and software powering model development and experimentation. Design and implement scalable core model components, including sensor encoders, sensor fusion modules, backbones, and temporal aggregation / memory blocks. Adapt SOTA ML technologies to unique compute requirements, leading optimizations for latency, throughput, and memory to operate efficiently within strict compute budgets. Drive rapid prototyping by building and maintaining flexible pipelines and development environments for fast iteration on novel model designs, enabling seamless integration of field advancements and in-depth analysis of model training dynamics and learned representations. You have: Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience 7+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision Strong expertise in Python and C++ and a solid software engineering background Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or Tensorflow We prefer: MS or PhD Degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science or a similar discipline Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI The expected base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $251,000-$310,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Planner Evaluation team works on one of the key challenges in autonomous driving: measuring and improving the quality of the software that drives the car. We are looking for experienced data-minded software engineers and data scientists to help us improve how we characterize and evaluate changes to the Onboard software stack (Planner, Perception, etc). If you are passionate about autonomous vehicles and how to use rich, complex data to drive decision making, this is the role for you! This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to an Engineering Manager. You will: Develop signals to measure the performance and driving qualities of the Waymo driver, using a range of techniques including statistics, math, physics, algorithms and machine learning. Use simulation creatively and mine real world driving logs to measure driving performance. Design and implement methods to make a stronger connection between onboard software changes and simulated outcomes. Champion code health and best practices in a large and complex code base. Analyze data and make recommendations on how to improve metric quality and interpretability. Collaborate with other engineers, data scientists, statisticians and the leadership team to deliver evaluation products and help make data driven decisions. You have: BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math or another quantitative area Strong self-motivation to navigate complex systems and pursue open-ended problems to completion 2-3 years of industry experience with Navigating and modifying a large code base containing a variety of languages, such as C++, Python and SQL Performing statistical analyses Building data processing pipelines Writing, reviewing, and merging code following industry standards for code health and maintainability Quant/data fluency is a top requirement We prefer: Experience coding in C++ Experience with ML Experience with A/B experiment infrastructure Experience building and validating metrics to measure quality in complex systems Exposure to ad-hoc data analysis tools for rapid modeling and prototyping Experience working in the AV industry The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $204,000-$259,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Perception team at Waymo builds technology that powers the Waymo Driver. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We conduct research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling software engineers like you to develop multi-modal models and techniques at scale. Our mission is to build a stable foundation for a high-level Perception pipeline and the overall self-driving system. We act as the crucial interface between Waymo's hardware teams and the rest of the self-driving engineering organization, defining sensor requirements, providing critical feedback to hardware teams, and abstracting away system complexities. The Sensor Health team's job is to make sure that sensors "just work" for the entire self-driving car software stack. We make sure that all sensors are properly calibrated and consistently monitored at all times. We are often the firsts to algorithmically process data from next-generation sensors on next-generation vehicle platforms and work closely with both hardware and software teams to provide the best possible sensor data from our many sensors perfectly aligned to our upstream customers. To this end, we develop sensor data alignment and calibration algorithms, a growing sensor health backend, and deploy our systems both into the Waymo Driver and our log processing backend. In this hybrid role, you will report to a Technical Lead Manager. You will: Dive deep into the Waymo Driver's perception stack and build a deep understanding of its capabilities in various driving conditions Help set the perception development direction to allow the stack to scale to new driving environments, platforms, and sensors Collaborate across world-class engineering teams to influence the roadmap for next-generation perception technology Architect high-scale, mission-critical automation and evaluation frameworks that establish the "ultimate truth" for the safety, performance, and reliability of the Waymo Driver Innovate simulation tools for advanced sensor emulation, rigorously testing vehicle performance against complex impairments and edge-case faults Support sign-off process for all stages of sensing system development and software releases. Present results at milestone sign-off reviews You have: BS in Computer Science, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience 2+ years of experience in industrial AI applications involving the creation, maintenance, and evaluation of ML products Experience developing and conducting eval for large ML software systems Strong experience programming in C++ with robust and efficient code We prefer: MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience with at least 2 years of industry experience Experience with autonomous vehicles (L4) or ADAS systems (L2/L3) Strong software architecture skills The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $175,000-$215,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Waymo's commercial service is running in five cities, and the associated infrastructure is in an early stage and requires investment for Waymo to grow into a high scale, world-class service. We are building a team of engineers dedicated to further developing our Android Platform team. Our team works on the user interfaces used by customers to interact with our autonomous vehicles as well as provide entertainment and information while riding. This is a fullstack team, managing the bring up and maintenance of a complete automotive grade Android system. In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager. You will: Evaluate SoC vendor development kits Develop update mechanism for Android OS and applications Work with vendors, HW team and other stakeholders to define requirements for next UX platform Bring up Android on new hardware Provide technical support for other teams working on our Android devices You have: BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience 3+ years of software development experience Experience working with low-level Android/AOSP (building Android platform features, frameworks), not just developing apps on top of Android Worked with git, repo and gerrit We prefer: Brought up Android on new hardware, or customized a build of Android for a new hardware variant Experience with security aspects of Android, SELinux and key provisioning The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $170,000-$216,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Driver Understanding and Evaluation team at Waymo develops a rich understanding of Waymo Driver's behavior. With over 1 million driverless miles per week, it is critical that Waymo can understand and assess the behavior of all its vehicles - both in the field and in simulation - with automated algorithms. The learned metrics team is a strategic bet to use machine learning to ensure we can scale to meet Waymo's goals. We collaborate across teams to bring ML to production systems and build what is Waymo's reward function. We build and operate large-scale machine learning and data systems, simulation workflows, and insight tools. We combine expert human judgements and advanced machine learning models to deliver training and evaluation data for the Waymo driver. We are looking for researchers and software engineers who are passionate about developing production grade machine learning systems for our autonomous vehicles and have an incessant drive to improve the performance of our technology stack. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to an Engineering Manager. You will: Lead a top-tier applied ML team focused on building ML models for AV behavior understanding and evaluation, using deep learning and Gen AI. Lead the development of cutting edge Deep Learning and machine learning models to enhance human-led triaging and introduce automation for high-volume workflows Design and build Gen AI LLM/VLM solutions for self driving car behavior analysis and anomaly detection Enhance User Feedback Analysis, collaborate seamlessly with product and business teams to design and implement tools for multi-label classifications, sentiment assessment, comment summarization, root cause analysis and trend analysis of rider feedback Oversee the production and optimization of machine learning models aiming to assess Waymo's expansive fleet of vehicles that cumulatively travel millions of miles. Drive technical direction, and provide technical inputs and guidance to the team. Work closely with PMs and TPMs to help define product requirements and align the technical agenda with the company's business objectives. Collaborate closely with multiple teams (e.g., Prediction, Planning, Research), other technical leads, and senior leaderships across Waymo to deliver on key strategic efforts. You have: B.S. in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams of 5-15 people 7+ years of experience with hands-on experience in machine learning projects 7+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning products in production environments Experience in at least one of: Foundational Models, VLM, Deep Learning Strong coding experience in C++ and/or Python. Experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face's transformers, along with expertise in deep learning models and ML deployment at scale We prefer: M.S. or Ph.D. degree Computer Science or related quantitative field with a specialization of machine learning. Deep learning experience with Transformers Gen AI LLM/VLM experience Experience with building tools for applied machine learning, including MLOps, evaluation/validation techniques, and model performance optimization. Large-scale data processing and analytical skills. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $238,000-$302,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Onboard Software Performance team ensures that systems running on ADV (Autonomously Driven Vehicle) meet strict performance requirements such as producing necessary outputs within strict latency targets and using an appropriately allocated amount of compute resources (CPU/GPU/TPU/RAM etc) for each respective submodule. All of this needs to be done at scale with performance guarantees of many 9s of reliability while enabling high velocity of system evolution. In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Staff Engineer, Technical Lead Manager. You will: Develop ADV's modular architecture improvements and frameworks that maximize performance and compute utilization and ROI for driving quality Evolve our compute usage on the car and simulation to enable continued scaling where the system runs fast on the car and efficiently in our data center Collaborating with onboard teams to identify and improve compute performance bottlenecks across the stack to improve performance/driving quality Collaborating with hardware teams to codesign hardware/software and optimize the software for best performance on our hardware platform Ensuring our performance is strong at any driving complexity including as we scale to even more complex driving environments and encounter rarer events Ensuring state of the art reaction latency for collision avoidance via novel system/architecture designs and extremely fast nominal performance Developing necessary high scale performance evaluation, debugging and software change management processes Optimizing system resource usage to simulation at scale in Cloud datacenters: minimizing CPU utilization and latency, minimizing RAM consumption, intelligently determining which computations should happen on CPU, GPU, and TPU. You have: BS/MS in Comp Sci, EE, Robotics, Physics, Math, or related field (or equivalent experience) 6 years of software engineering experience on large scale/high complexity system (supported by hundreds of engineers) 2 years of software management experience with at least 4 years in infrastructure/systems/performance domain optimizing end to end system for high performance metrics 4 years of experience acting as technical lead in performance/software infrastructure domain 4 years of experience in C++ Define roadmap/portfolio of projects optimizing for end results overall across all aspects of the problem space Setup collaboration structures across team boundaries We prefer: Experience in robotics Experience in low level optimization techniques, frameworks (SIMD/CUDA) and ML performance/frameworks Experience in large scale evaluation techniques/data science and building performance metrics/tooling Experience in large scale software re-architecture projects The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $238,000-$302,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. You will: Translate business requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Define core data concepts for Waymo commercialization and implement models in the database. Design, build, and maintain data warehouse and pipeline solutions. Bring in and transform raw data that can be easily used to generate reports and insights for Waymo's commercialization tracking and optimization. Ensure proper handling of PII and ACL. Implement a data quality framework, and maintain documentation. Be highly collaborative and work closely with data producers and data consumers across Waymo to understand the data needs, provide consultation, and align data solutions. You have: 6+ years of professional experience in data engineering or a related field Proven track record of building complex data engineering projects architectures from conception to deployment Experiences of designing and implementing data warehousing or data lake solutions like Google BigQuery and Snowflake, optimizing them for complex analytical queries and reporting Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases Expertise in designing and implementing scalable data models, data quality frameworks, and data governance practices Proficient in SQL. Familiar with at least one of languages in Python, C++, or Java We prefer: Familiarity with distributed processing frameworks and tools like Spark, Hadoop, or Kafka, handling massive datasets for real-time or batch analytics Deep understanding of data privacy, security, quality, correctness, and efficiency tradeoffs Proven track record of driving collaboration effectively across organizational boundaries, building multi-dimensional stakeholder relationships, and importing and exporting ideas to achieve broad organizational goals Experience in leading projects and driving collaborating with cross-functional teams. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $251,000-$310,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Waymo Onboard Infrastructure is responsible for low-level software and infrastructure on various components of the Waymo self-driving system. The team's scope covers everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth data logging, IPC (low-latency and high-throughput), performance analysis, and full-system debugging. We work with the Hardware, Compute, Sensor, Perception, Behavior and Machine Learning teams to build the most performant and low-latency self-driving solution in the industry. We are seeking an experienced Android System Software Engineer to join our team in developing the In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) platform for our next-generation, in-house System-on-Chip (SOC). This role requires a strong foundation in low-level OS fundamentals, embedded software, and a proactive approach to validating and ensuring the hardware meets critical software performance requirements. In this role you will: System Bring-up & Integration: Implement and integrate low-level software, including bootloader configuration, device trees, and kernel porting during the initial hardware bring-up phase. OS/Kernel Development & Optimization: Customize, optimize, and debug the Linux Kernel and relevant parts of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for the partner SOC, ensuring robust and efficient operation. Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) Implementation: Develop and maintain reliable Vendor HALs to interface the unique in-house hardware IP (e.g., security modules, power management units, display controllers) with the Android framework. Performance Engineering: Drive system-level performance optimization, including boot time reduction, scheduling tuning, thermal management, and power efficiency based on the SOC's specific architecture. Ambiguity Resolution: Proactively manage and clarify technical requirements for features that are still actively being defined internally, rapidly documenting and stabilizing interfaces for the broader software team. At a minimum, we'd like you to have: Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical field. Minimum 3+ years of professional software development experience, with a focus on embedded systems, low-level Android, or OS development. Deep expertise in OS Fundamentals: Strong working knowledge of the Linux Kernel (e.g., device drivers, memory management, IPC, scheduling) and embedded operating systems concepts. Experience Interfacing with Hardware Teams: Proven ability to read hardware specifications (datasheets, block diagrams) and effectively communicate software requirements, providing constructive technical feedback on hardware design choices. Proficiency in C/C++ is essential, along with experience in scripting languages (Python/Shell) for tooling and automation. Solid understanding of Android System Development: Hands-on experience modifying, debugging, and building AOSP, including familiarity with Android HALs, Treble/VNDK, and system debugging tools. Adaptability and Initiative: Demonstrated ability to thrive in an environment where technical specifications are evolving, requiring proactive problem-solving and definition of solutions. It's preferred if you have: Direct experience developing or integrating systems using Android Automotive OS or Android for embedded/IVI environments. Experience with system security fundamentals, particularly implementing or debugging secure boot and trusted execution environments (TEEs). Experience with system-level virtualization technologies (e.g., KVM, hypervisors, secure separation) for embedded or automotive platforms. Experience with audio stacks (e.g., ALSA, Audio HAL, Android AudioFlinger) or visual/graphics stacks (e.g., SurfaceFlinger, V-sync, display pipelines). The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $204,000-$259,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Perception Team at Waymo builds the system that "sees" the world around the self-driving car. We conduct novel research to address real-world perception problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. Here at Waymo, we have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling researchers like you to develop complex models and techniques at scale. Improvements deployed to our system can immediately advance our large fleet of autonomous vehicles. Within Perception, the Sensor Health team's job is to make sure that sensors "just work" for the entire self-driving car software stack. We make sure that all sensors are properly calibrated and consistently monitored at all times. We process data from next-generation sensors on next-generation vehicle platforms and work closely with both hardware and software teams to provide the best possible sensor data from our sensors to our upstream customers. To this end, we develop sensor data alignment and calibration algorithms, a growing sensor health backend, and deploy our systems both into the Waymo Driver and our log processing backend. In this hybrid remote/in-office role, you will report to a Senior Staff TLM. You will: Lead and build a team of ML engineers in charge of reliable sensing anomaly detection and calibration Build a data flywheel to automatically generate suitable training data for rare instance sensor degradation events using VLMs Own the entire sensor validation stack end to end Drive and accelerate collaborations between perception, system engineering, evaluation, and Alphabet teams You have: MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Math, Physics or equivalent industry experience 6+ years of experience in designing, training, and deploying ML-driven real-time robotics systems 4+ years of experience leading technical teams and setting technical directions 2+ years of people management experience We prefer: PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Math, Physics, or a related technical field Experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or related automotive industries. Experience with various sensor modalities (e.g., LiDAR, radar, cameras) and their unique challenges. Familiarity with early fusion multi modal sensor models and their development challenges Experience with rare instance or zero-shot detection problems The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $238,000-$302,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Rigorous behavioral evaluation of the Waymo Driver is a critical part of scaling our ride hailing service and achieving Waymo's ambitious goals. In this role, you will lead key initiatives for measuring the quality and trustworthiness of the behavior evaluation portfolio at Waymo, continuously identify and drive opportunities for improving the evaluation and testing methodologies, and partner closely with product and engineering teams to develop scalable solutions for monitoring and enhancing the health of the evaluation ecosystem. You will play a key role to ensure the behavior evaluation at Waymo is efficient, scientifically rigorous, and supporting Waymo's growth priorities. In this hybrid role you will report to a Data Science Lead. You will: Lead a roadmap to develop methodologies and Key Performance Indicators to measure the quality, cost efficiency, and business relevance for various behavior evaluation solutions at Waymo. Directly influence the portfolio of evaluation signals relied on by hundreds of software engineers to ensure their changes in the Waymo Driver are having positive intended impacts. Conduct deep dive analysis to understand performance bottlenecks in current evaluation methodologies, propose and prototype improvements in metrics, sampling strategy, statistical inference, etc. Become an expert in Waymo's evaluation ecosystem for onboard software. Understand how a broad variety of evaluation signals affect Waymo's launch decisions, develop strategies for evaluating trade-offs, and provide actionable insights for designing launch criteria. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build solutions for assessing Waymo's evaluation portfolio at scale and accelerate the development for new evaluation. Collaborate with owners of various evaluation solutions, develop feedback loops to surface insights on evaluation quality to stakeholders and drive actionable plans for continuous improvement. You have: Degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Physics) Either a PhD in a quantitative field and 5+ years of industry experience, or 7+ years of industry experience solving data science problems Solid statistical background. Expertise using advanced statistical methods in an applied setting (e.g., experimentation design, causal inference, etc); familiarity with ML systems/models Demonstrated knowledge of data analysis libraries and packages in Python, R, and/or SQL Strong communication/leadership to address a high surface area across different organizations and products Ability to navigate through ambiguous business requirements and propose a clear technical solution We prefer: PhD in a quantitative field Experience developing production-grade software and tools Experience as the technical lead for a broad data science area. A demonstrated track record of independently driving data science projects to deliver business value Experience with large-scale evaluation frameworks or experimentation/data platform for software development and machine learning systems Experience solving problems related to Autonomous Driving or Ride Hailing The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $238,000-$302,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you're a software engineer or researcher who's curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you. The Sensor Foundations Team's purpose is to provide cleaned-up sensor data through highly optimized APIs to Perception models, to abstract sensor hardware differences where possible, and to provide low-level Perception signals either through algorithms or machine learning. Projects on our team typically require a diverse skill set, including robotics, system integration, code optimization, and machine learning. We have a good understanding of the hardware (both sensors and compute) and the overall Perception system. For this role, we are looking for a strong Software Engineer with robotics and machine learning experience, who will help us to accelerate the transition of low-level Perception tasks from algorithms to machine learning. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Technical Lead Manager of the Sensor Foundations Team. You will: Transition low-level Perception tasks from algorithms to machine learning Work on system integration and optimization Evaluate task-level and system-level quality, developing new metrics as needed You have: Bachelors in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or similar technical field of study 5+ years of industry experience Strong C/C++ skills Proficiency with Python Experience with Computer Vision and Machine Learning Experience with System Integration We prefer: Masters or PhD Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a similar discipline Experience with sensor data processing (Lidar, camera, or radar) Experience in the AV industry The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $213,000-$263,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Software Engineering builds the brains of Waymo's fully autonomous driving technology. Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations. We think deeply and solve complex technical challenges in areas like robotics, perception, decision-making and deep learning, while collaborating with hardware and systems engineers. If you're a software engineer or researcher who's curious and passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving, we'd like to meet you. The Sensor Foundations Team's purpose is to provide cleaned-up sensor data through highly optimized APIs to Perception models, to abstract sensor hardware differences where possible, and to provide low-level Perception signals either through algorithms or machine learning. Projects on our team typically require a diverse skill set, including robotics, system integration, code optimization, and machine learning. We have a good understanding of the hardware (both sensors and compute) and the overall Perception system. The Optimization sub-team uses our know-how of CPUs, GPUs, and clever algorithms to process Waymo's sensor data super-fast and feed it to the Perception ML models. We specialize in low-level understanding of compute hardware, and we apply that knowledge wherever we can, throughout the whole stack. We are looking for a Tech-Lead Manager with a CPU, GPU, or system-level optimization background to lead this small team of Software Engineers. Depending on your prior experience, you may also be responsible for system-level optimization and be a steward of our compute resources. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the TLM of the Sensor Foundations team. You will: Lead a small team of optimization experts Identify system-level optimization opportunities Optimize existing CPU code Write and review CUDA code Collaborate with ML practitioners to understand their input-processing needs. Be a steward of our compute resources You have: B.Sc in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field 8+ years of industry experience Strong C++ programming skills Experience with optimizing CPU or GPU code (ideally both) Prior people management experience We prefer: M.Sc or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field Experience with system-level optimization Experience with compiler technology. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $298,000-$368,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Business Systems team defines and builds the business IT architecture that supports the commercial operation of Waymo's autonomous fleet. The team stands at the intersection of finance, operations and IT; through creative architecture, expertise and attention to detail, it ensures that Waymo has world-class capabilities across all its business processes. In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Manager of Finance,Indirect Procurement & HR Systems. We are seeking a SAP Finance System Architect & Automation Lead to serve as the primary functional authority and strategic leader for our enterprise financial platform. In this role, you will define, design, and own the multi-year technology roadmap across our SAP S/4HANA, Group Reporting, Ariba. Sitting at the intersection of complex monetization models,compliance, and enterprise automation, you will drive the roll out of clean-core S/4HANA architecture while actively deploying next-generation SAP Business AI tools to scale our global financial operations. You will: Strategic Roadmap & System Architecture : Act as the global Subject Matter Expert (SME) and architect for SAP FICO, Group Reporting, and Ariba. Define system vision and evaluate long-term scalability. Deep Functional Expertise in SAP FICO: Extensive knowledge of General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Asset Accounting (AA), and Cost Center/Profit Center Accounting (CCA/PCA), Profitability Analysis and Product Costing. AI & Continuous Automation: Drive the evaluation and rollout of embedded SAP Business AI capabilities including SAP Joule conversational AI and automated cash application ML models. Enterprise Lead Architect: This role is strategically positioned to drive the complete transformation and modernization of our entire financial ecosystem, moving beyond incremental improvements to fundamentally redefine how our financial processes operate within SAP including key projects for Company Code Expansions, Implementing new planning systems etc. Business Requirements Analysis: Partner with Finance, Accounting, and other cross-functional stakeholders to gather, evaluate, verify, and detail comprehensive business needs into process maps, user stories, and functional specifications. SAP Solutioning & Configuration: Design, build, test, and deploy resilient SAP setups, ensuring close alignment with industry best practices, internal controls, and regulatory standards like IFRS 15/ASC 606. You have: Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or related field (Master's / MBA preferred). Experience: Minimum of 10+ years of experience working as Finance System Architect or Consultant with a primary focus on SAP FICO and Ariba. Life cycle Mastery: Proven track record leading at least 2 full-life cycle SAP implementations (S/4HANA Cloud preferred). Core FICO Depth: Expert-level configuration knowledge across GL, AR, AP, AA, CCA/PCA, and CO-PA. Domain Expertise : Hands-on experience with SAP and Ariba We prefer: SAP Group Reporting (S/4HANA) / EC-CS: Experience with legal and management consolidation processes. SAP Planning & Consolidation (BPC) / SAC Planning: Proficiency in financial budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes and tools. Technical & Analytical Skills: Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. Ability to read and understand ABAP code is a strong plus. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $196,000-$248,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. As Waymo prepares to bring the Waymo Driver to European markets, we are seeking a Privacy Engineer to lead the technical architectural design and implementation of our global privacy systems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between legal requirements (GDPR) and technical reality. You will not just "manage" compliance; you will build the actual engines, data pipelines, and anonymization frameworks that allow our autonomous vehicles to operate in strict regulatory environments. You will work closely with Legal, Product, and AI/ML teams to ensure that Privacy by Design is baked into our sensor data ingestion, mapping technologies, and rider experience from day one. You will: Architect for EU Compliance: Design and build data handling systems that satisfy strict GDPR requirements, "Right to be Forgotten" automation, and consent management frameworks for European riders. Sensor Data Anonymization: Develop and optimize computer vision and ML pipelines to automatically detect and blur faces, license plates, and other PII from camera/Lidar data at the edge (on-vehicle) and in the cloud before it enters our training sets. Privacy Infrastructure: Write scalable code (C++/Java/Kotlin) to enforce retention policies, access controls, and data minimization across Waymo's distributed infrastructure. Partner with Waymo's Legal and Policy teams to translate complex regulatory texts (e.g., the EU Data & AI Act) into concrete engineering specifications and system requirements. Threat Modeling: Conduct privacy impact assessments (PIA) and threat modeling for new features, specifically focusing on cross-border data transfer risks and third-party vendor integration. You have: BS degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on privacy, security, or data infrastructure. Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Python, C++, Java). Deep understanding of GDPR. Experience working with large-scale data processing frameworks (e.g., Flume, MapReduce, etc ) and cloud infrastructure. We prefer: Prior experience helping a US-based tech company launch products in the European Economic Area (EEA) or UK. Familiarity with privacy-preserving machine learning techniques, such as Differential Privacy, Federated Learning, or Homomorphic Encryption. Experience building first-class user facing products. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $251,000-$310,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Simulator Team at Waymo builds state-of-the-art simulations of realistic environments for testing and training the Waymo Driver. Our team is a diverse and collaborative group of software engineers, machine learning (ML) engineers, and data scientists. We develop industry-leading simulation solutions using advanced ML algorithms that measure and enhance the performance of the Waymo Driver. By applying machine learning, we model the real world, including realistic agents (vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists), roads, traffic control systems, and weather conditions. To increase the fidelity and steerability of our simulations, we employ the latest ML technologies such as large foundation models trained on our datasets and diffusion technology. We also invest in capable infrastructure that allows us to quickly set up and roll out multiple scenarios to rigorously test our autonomous driving systems. In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Engineering Manager You will: Be part of a world-class applied ML team dedicated to advancing ultra-realistic autonomous vehicle (AV) simulations by leveraging Generative AI technologies. Apply deep domain expertise in ML, especially GenAI, to push the boundaries of simulation realism and autonomous driving capabilities. Independently manage the entire lifecycle of product innovations, from prototyping to productization, scaling simulations and data processing systems. Work within a collaborative applied ML engineering team that transforms research ideas into production-ready solutions. You have: 7+ years experience in applied Deep Learning 7+ years coding and design skills 7+ years of experience solving complex production problems using state-of-the-art ML techniques 7+ years of experience taking research to production Expertise in Data Analysis or Data Science We prefer: PhD degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline Direct experience in Generative AI, including multi-modal foundation models and Diffusion models. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $213,000-$263,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Waymo is solving one of the most complex challenges in autonomous driving: understanding the dynamic, unspoken rules of the road. The Scene Understanding team is at the forefront of this mission, tasked with generating real-time, scene-level semantic representations of the world - moving beyond individual bounding boxes to understand construction zones, temporary traffic controls, and complex road graphs. As a TLM for Scene Understanding, you will act as a true "player-coach" for a team of roughly 6-10 engineers. This is a high impact role, where your models will directly dictate how the Waymo Driver reacts to complex, unstructured environments like active construction zones and temporary traffic signs. This work is critical to Waymo's ability to scale into new cities, across the US and internationally. In this hybrid role you will report to a Sr Staff Technical Lead Manager. You will: Own a specific domain within scene understanding, such as traffic controls or construction zones, and work with product and safety partners on short- and long-term improvements in support of Waymo's scaling goals Lead the analysis of real-world scene understanding issues to develop technical roadmaps and drive the roadmap execution, Build resilient and high performing teams through people development and hiring, Make project staffing decisions, technical decisions, drive escalations; ultimately accountable for delivering projects. You have: Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience 7+ years of experience building and deploying deep learning/computer vision models in production environments, ideally within the AV or robotics space 2-3+ years of experience directly managing and scaling engineering/research teams (managing 5+ reports) Fluency in Python, C++, and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX) We prefer: MS or PhD Degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science or a similar discipline Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS,. Experience with C++ Experience with real-time system design The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $251,000-$310,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The mission of the Waymo AI Foundations team is to develop machine learning solutions addressing open problems in autonomous driving, towards the goal of safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. As part of our work, we also initiate and foster collaborations with other research teams in Alphabet. AI Foundations areas that we are currently focusing on include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, generative modeling, Bayesian inference, hierarchical learning, and robust evaluation. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and you will report to a Senior Staff Software Engineer. You will: Work with a creative team of people who help to build the state-of-the-art Foundation Models that are used throughout Waymo's systems, both onboard autonomous vehicles and offboard in simulation Lead the development of end-to-end evaluation systems and benchmarks for Waymo Foundation models, encompassing the entire lifecycle from pretraining and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to reinforcement learning (RL), for evaluating the quality, safety, and realism of embodied AI agents Partner within and across organizations to land disruptive and innovative tech in production Implement and extend large large scale data and evaluation pipelines You have: Master's degree or PhD degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience 5+ years of experience in ML engineering and applied Deep Learning, with a strong portfolio of shipped products or publication record Experience with large scale distributed system Proficient programming skills (eg: Python, C/C++) Strong analytical and debugging skills We prefer: ML infra experience: training, evaluating and deploying ML models at scale Deep learning experience, especially with generative models, e.g., LLMs/VLMs, and/or reinforcement learning Proficiency and in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of an ML framework (e.g. Pytorch, JAX, Tensorflow) In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include: Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary) Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks Holidays: 13 paid days per year The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $238,000-$302,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. In Semantics, our team's mission is to create the highest-fidelity, most comprehensive offboard perception autolabels at a massive scale, serving as the foundation for training and validating the AV stack. We are an advanced ML and engineering team that leverages state-of-the-art computer vision, deep learning, and generative AI to automatically analyze driving logs, generate rich scene understanding, and power the data engine that enables Waymo to scale safely and efficiently. In this hybrid role, you will report to a Senior Staff Technical Lead Manager. You will: Develop and train state-of-the-art computer vision / multimodal models (e.g., Gemini) to extract the rich semantic information (e.g., object attributes, scene properties, interaction dynamics) required by the AI agent. Design and implement a scalable AI agent framework that integrates large foundation models (e.g., Gemini) with the outputs of our perception models and internal knowledge bases. Develop and apply Fine-tuning and Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques to create a "data flywheel," continuously improving the system's captioning and reasoning abilities through automated feedback. Develop and prototype novel prompting strategies for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to elicit complex, causal reasoning about driving scenarios. Collaborate closely with the ML Infra, Perception, Behavior, and AI Foundation teams to define data requirements and integrate the captioning system into the broader ML development lifecycle. Own the full system lifecycle, from advanced model development and prototyping to production deployment and scaling for massive data generation You have: Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field. 4+ years of hands-on experience training and shipping deep learning models for computer vision tasks (e.g., detection, segmentation, video understanding) using Python and frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow. 1+ years of demonstrated experience working with large language models (LLMs) or vision-language models (VLMs) in areas such as fine-tuning, prompting, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Strong software engineering fundamentals, including designing scalable and reliable systems. Experience building and managing large-scale data processing pipelines for ML training. Proven ability to work autonomously and lead complex technical projects in a fast-paced R&D environment. We prefer: PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field. Publication record in top-tier AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR). Hands-on experience with Reinforcement Learning, especially RLHF, RLAIF, or applying RL to language/agentic tasks. Experience with modern techniques in self-supervised, weakly-supervised, or multi-task learning for perception. Experience building with AI agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) or developing autonomous agentic systems. Familiarity with the challenges of multimodal perception in robotics or autonomous driving. A track record of impactful cross-functional collaboration. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $213,000-$263,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle's software stack. To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world's highest performance automotive compute platforms. In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager. You will: Develop high-performance GPU primitives and abstractions to enable Waymo to scale its accelerator codebase across diverse GPU backends Collaborate with Waymo's internal hardware team and external partners on SoC projects with a focus on the GPU portion Manage the bring-up, correctness, and performance of the Waymo onboard stack on new GPU platforms Contribute to testing infrastructure that enhances the CI/CD flow for GPUs, detects bugs early, and generates automated alerts to maintain the GPU stack's functionality and performance Create profiler and debugger tools for new GPU platforms You have: Expertise in C++ programming for GPU (CUDA or similar framework) Bachelor degrees in EECS, coupled with a minimum of five years of industry experience Solid understanding of GPU software stack Solid understanding of key GPU hardware characteristics that are important to GPU SW efficiency Proficiency in utilizing performance analysis tools and debuggers Enthusiasm for developing the complete GPU software stack, from the hardware level to real-world applications We prefer: Master/doctorate degree in EECS Prior excellence in landing solid, sophisticated, and efficient solutions at any level of the GPU stack Deep insights into GPU kernel performance, compilation flow, and driver stack Knowledgeable of Linux driver and embedded firmware Ability to quickly ramp on a diverse set of heterogeneous platforms and start solving problems Clear technical communicator, good leader and collaborator Familiarity with GPU libraries such as Thrust, CUB, CUTLASS, or Eigen Experience contributing to open-source compiler projects such as LLVM or SPIR-V The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $204,000-$259,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. The Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the self-driving car, i.e., the system that "perceives" the world around the car. We work jointly with downstream teams on the optimization and integration into the Waymo Driver. We conduct our own research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet. We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling engineers like you to (1) develop methods for efficiently and continuously learning from large scale real-world data, to (2) develop models and model training at scale, to (3) analyze real-world behavior and develop systems for handling the complexities of interacting with the real-world, and (4) optimize models for our onboard and offboard hardware. Perception has many different vertical pipelines solving different real-world problems beyond just object detection and understanding, the Sensor Pipelines team works on a diverse portfolio of problems such as weather, road surface understanding, visibility, and detection of exceptional events around the car. These pipelines often have a strong aspect of sensing technology, but also stretch the entire Perception stack and interfacing with planning as well. In this hybrid role you will report to a Senior Engineering Manager and manage and grow a team of engineers working on Perception ML pipelines. You will: Manage a team of Software engineers & Machine Learning engineers to estimate the weather conditions around a vehicle. Develop Machine Learning models that work well in low-data regimes (few-shot learning etc). Work with downstream customer teams to set requirements, align with their product roadmaps, etc. Responsible for people development and hiring for a growing team, build resilient and high performing teams. Drive the team to design excellent ML solutions in collaboration with TLs in the team, and foster an atmosphere of high achievement. Represent the team in the larger Perception and Onboard group, including collaborating with other leads around on staffing and planning. Define team OKRs, develop believable plans to achieve the OKRs, and drive the roadmap execution. Make project staffing decisions, technical decisions, drive escalations; ultimately accountable for delivering projects. You have: Bachelor's in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience Experience managing software engineers, and managers of software engineers. Both general previous experience in ML, as well as hands-on experience managing and leading ML projects. 8+ years of industry experience We prefer: MS or PhD in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience Previous experience working on or with sensing hardware Previous experience working in the self-driving or robotics space Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Senior Engineering Manager. The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $251,000-$310,000 USD

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World's Most Experienced Driver -to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states. Waymo's Technical Program Managers are accountable for Waymo's roadmap execution by providing thoughtful cross-functional planning, clarity, and proactive risk management. In the face of complex technical and operational challenges with no established playbooks to follow, we act with thoughtful urgency, driving conversations, discussions, and outcomes. Our team partners closely with every function of Waymo to structure, own and drive work towards real-world deployments of the Waymo Driver across platforms and geographies. The Staff TPM for Simulation Infra Resource Management at Waymo is focused on the critical challenge of maximizing the impact and effective utilization of simulation compute resources across the company. This role involves deep partnership with engineering and product management. This TPM will be a decisive leader, constantly balancing complex trade-offs and communicating these decisions clearly to a wide array of stakeholders, including senior leaders and the C-team. This role follows a hybrid work schedule and will report to a Manager of Technical Program Management. You will: Partner with engineering and product management stakeholders to own and drive the effective utilization of simulation compute resources Develop program structures and execution strategies Maintain a strong orientation toward decision-making while balancing and communicating trade-offs to stakeholders Demonstrate the ability to influence without direct authority to ensure downward, outward, and upward alignment and communication for your program You have: Extensive experience in large-scale program management, including managing multiple projects, diverse stakeholders, and complex team structures 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, software, or resource and capacity management A background in computer science or a commensurate technical capability in a STEM field A strong record of delivering high-impact strategic communications We prefer: Experience as a professional software developer in a large-scale corporate environment A PhD or an advanced technology degree Prior experience managing resource allocation and capacity at scale Experience with business, finance, and accounting principles Experience collaborating with global, distributed teams across multiple geographic locations Experience in Machine Learning In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include: Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary) Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks Holidays: 13 paid days per year The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. Salary Range $230,000-$292,000 USD

Sr. Director, Search AI - Product Engineering We exist to wow our customers. We know we're doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, "How did we ever live without Coupang?" Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we're collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce. We are proud to have the best of both worlds - a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day. Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what's possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world. About the Role We are looking for a Senior Director to lead and evolve Coupang's core search experience , powered by cutting-edge AI and machine learning. Search is at the heart of Coupang's customer experience -shaping how millions of customers discover products every day. Improvements in search directly translate into better discovery, higher engagement, and meaningful business impact. In this role, you will own the end-to-end search experience - from product direction to ML systems to business outcomes. This role will shape how millions of customers find what they need and lead innovation in AI-powered search at scale and will drive some of the most important metrics in the company. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will drive innovation at scale, influence company-wide metrics, and lead a world-class team across engineering and machine learning. What You Will Do Own and evolve Coupang's search experience end-to-end Define and execute the product and technical roadmap for search Drive measurable impact on key business metrics Lead and scale a multi-layer organization across Partner closely with Product, Design, and Business leaders to deliver best-in-class customer experiences Build and launch new search capabilities (0 1) while continuously improving existing systems What We're Looking For Required Qualifications 10+ years of experience in software engineering and/or machine learning Strong product mindset with the ability to connect technical decisions to customer experience and business outcomes Strong experience owning user-facing ML products such as: Search Recommendation systems Ads ranking Marketplace discovery Demonstrated track record of driving measurable business impact (e.g., engagement, conversion, revenue) Deep understanding of search and recommendation systems , including: Ranking and retrieval Relevance and personalization System tradeoffs (latency, recall, precision) Proven experience leading large, multi-team organizations (including managers of managers) Preferred Qualifications Experience in e-commerce or marketplace environments Experience leading global or multi-region teams Experience building 0 1 products or new product surfaces Background in fast-scaling consumer technology companies Pay & Benefits: Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation. The base pay for this position ranges from $184,000/year in our lowest geographic market to $376,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. General Description of All Benefits: Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA) Long-term/Short-term Disability Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program 401K Plan with Company Match 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure 12 Public Holidays Paid Parental leave Pre-tax commuter benefits MTV - Free Electric Car Charging Station General Description of Other Compensation: "Other Compensation" includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale. Equal Opportunities for All Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. Our unprecedented success could not be possible without the valuable inputs of our globally diverse team. Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ,ancestry, national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at .

We exist to wow our customers. We know we're doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, "How did I ever live without Coupang?" Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we're collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce. We are proud to have the best of both worlds - a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day. Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what's possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world. Search and Discovery Product The Search and Discovery Product Team is responsible for creating a world class search and discovery shopping experience for our customers, from "intent" based shopping to delighting the customer with serendipitous product discovery on every visit. We are obsessed with optimizing the entire search customer journey, from query understanding and search relevance to personalized and category/mission aware search and recommendation experiences. We believe the experience of finding the right fresh groceries delivered to your door the next morning, should be personal and different from shopping for a new laptop or your next pair of jeans. Search and Recommendations drive over 70% of product discovery for our millions of daily customers, so the scale and impact of our work is massive! Role Overview With the latest advances in AI/ML, we have the opportunity to rethink the traditional search stack to deliver unique high-quality experiences to our customers that were traditionally outside the realm of possibility. This Search Product leader will be responsible for a key area of Search within the Search & Discovery org as a senior IC or Tech lead who may mentor some junior PMs along with their own IC scope. What You Will Do Strategic Impact: Define and execute on the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Search - driving quarterly planning and driving daily execution to deliver unique customer experiences. Goal Ownership & Execution: Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define OKRs and identify key problems that unlock targeted growth. Own and deliver OKRs by defining product roadmaps and driving day-to-day execution, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery. Metrics Definition & Data-Driven Insights: Define input and output metrics, regularly reviewing them to proactively gain insights and improve search. Conduct deep data analysis to generate actionable insights for defining and solving complex business problems. Competitive Analysis & Benchmarking: Perform competitive analysis to understand how leading eCommerce businesses solve problems and benchmark Coupang's products and practices against global best-in-class standards, identifying opportunities for improvement. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Effectively communicate, collaborate, and drive alignment with diverse stakeholders, including senior executives across business and technology partners, ensuring seamless execution. Team Development & Culture: Conduct product manager interviews and participate in hiring decisions to attract top talent. Provide performance feedback for peers and partners, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. Basic Qualification Experience with Search/Ads or large scale ML systems Hands on experience vibe coding and building prototypes with LLMs MBA with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 10+ years of experience in ML product management, including developing, delivering, and executing on a strong product vision. AI first analytical thinker who works well in a global, fast-paced, data-driven, cross-functional, and highly ambiguous entrepreneurial culture. Bias for action and willingness to dive deep and get your hands dirty to get the job done. Sound business judgment and proven ability to effectively communicate and influence others, including executive level reviews. Ability to think strategically and at the same time stay on top of tactical execution. Preferred Qualification Background in Search/Ads ML Experience in launching and scaling consumer facing products, with ecommerce experience a definite plus Experience working with multiple teams across different geographies Pay & Benefits Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets. At Coupang, your base pay is one part of your total compensation. The base pay for this position ranges from $232,000/year to $290,000/year. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. General Description of All Benefits Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, AD&D insurance Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA) Long-term/Short-term Disability Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program 401K Plan with Company Match 18-21 days of the Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure 12 Paid Holidays Up to 6 weeks of Paid Parental leave Pre-tax commuter benefits MTV - Free Electric Car Charging Station General Description of Other Compensation "Other Compensation" includes, but is not limited to, bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary range or wage scale. Recruitment Process and Others Recruitment Process Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview - Offer The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances. Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage Details to Consider This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled. Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process. Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran's benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws. Privacy Notice Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below: Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (including traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hair styles), color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ,ancestry, national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C status, family status (including but not limited to marital or domestic partnership status), military or veteran status, use of a trained dog guide or service animal, political activities or affiliations, ancestry, citizenship, family and medical leave status, status as a victim of any violent crime, or any other characteristic or class protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Coupang is also committed to providing a safe work environment for its employees and its consumers. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application of recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at . Job Requisition ID : R