Senior Software Engineer, Data Tooling

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the 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 One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

The Waymo ML Infrastructure team accelerates Waymo's mission by building the best ecosystem for sustainably building and shipping ML-powered intelligence. We provide the best solutions for the entire model development lifecycle, collaborating closely with Google. Developer productivity, scale, and efficiency are core tenets.

You will:

1. Report to the TLM for the ML Tooling team


2. Apply Waymo and Alphabet technology to ensure fast, scalable search across large datasets


3. Deliver data exploration tools allowing users to search, slice, and understand large corpora of driving logs

You have:

1. BS in Computer Science, Robotics, a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience


2. Experience building batch processing pipelines to index/annotate large datasets


3. Experience designing, building, and deploying full stack web applications, especially in common production frameworks like GCP (Cloud Storage, Vertex AI, OAuth) or AWS (S3, EC2, IAM, Batch)


4. High customer focus and ability to incorporate user feedback into designs and improvements

We prefer:

1. 5 years of professional experience on infrastructure projects


2. Proficiency developing realtime APIs in C++ or Python


3. Proficiency developing web frontends in TypeScript or JavaScript

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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