senior Software Engineer ic 8+ yrs Bachelor's
$204,000 – $259,000
USD per year

About this role

Waymo is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Mountain View, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, TypeScript, TensorFlow, PyTorch and roughly 8+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $204,000–$259,000 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Mountain View, CA
Experience
8+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Department
Sys Intel and Machine Lrng (SQT)
AI Summary
Develop core training systems for large-scale reinforcement learning in autonomous driving. Design distributed RL pipelines, integrate algorithms like PPO and DPO, and optimize end-to-end training workflows. Requires distributed systems expertise, ML framework proficiency (TensorFlow, JAX), and strong Python/C++ skills.

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Job description

from Waymo careers

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 with Research and Production teams across Waymo to develop 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 pre-training and post-training. They are geared towards both scaling models with efficiency and solving problems unique to ML for autonomous driving.

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