Waymo
Technical Lead Manager, Machine Learning Runtime & Serving
Mountain View, California · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$251k-$310kDetected 7 days ago
Machine LearningDeep LearningLLMsLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- In this role, you will actively grow and manage a high-performing team of 6 engineers to deliver Waymo's next-generation ML ecosystem.
- Strong background in building and scaling LLM serving systems, leveraging advanced distributed inference and performance optimization techniques.
- Deep expertise in edge computing and automotive ML deployment, navigating strict power, thermal, and real-time latency constraints to optimize and deploy mission-critical models on resource-constrained embedded hardware.
Requirements
- People management experience, with a proven track record of recruiting, mentoring, and guiding high-performing teams of senior engineers.
- Strong production programming expertise.
- Proven track record of optimizing ML software to maximize the performance of hardware accelerators (e.g., GPUs, TPUs, or custom silicon).
Skills
- This critical work encompasses both the in-vehicle inference engine and the cloud-based serving infrastructure for our foundational models.
Compensation
- $251,000 - $310,000 USD
Benefits
- Waymo is seeking a senior Technical Lead Manager (TLM) Machine Learning Engineer to guide the technical vision of our core ML infrastructure.
- PhD in CS, EE, Deep Learning or a related field.
This listing is sourced directly from Waymo's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.