director software engineering Director of Engineering management 10+ yrs Hybrid
$332,000 – $421,000
USD per year

About this role

Waymo is hiring a director-level Director of Engineering in the software engineering function based in Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA (hybrid). The posting calls out experience with LLMs, NLP, Reinforcement Learning, Data Structures and roughly 10+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $332,000–$421,000 per year.

Role
Director of Engineering
Function
software engineering
Level
director
Track
Management
Employment
Full-time
Location
Mountain View, CA | San Francisco, CA
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
10+ years
Department
AI Foundations (7SJ)
AI Summary
Director-level role leading AI Foundations team to integrate foundation models into autonomous driving systems. Oversee machine learning production systems, model distillation optimization, evaluation infrastructure, and data flywheel applications. Requires 10+ years ML expertise, team leadership experience, and cross-org collaboration 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 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 the Vice President, AI Foundations.

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