Waymo

Waymo

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Senior Software Engineer, ML Data Infrastructure

Posted Aug 5, 2026

Role at a glance

Salary
$213K – $263K/yr
Location
Mountain View, California, United States
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Experience
4+ years of professional experience in the field of software engineering

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Role Summary

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The ML Ops team within Waymo’s ML Platform team builds data infrastructure, automation, and orchestration tools for machine learning workflows. This role supports Waymo’s ML models, including LLMs, by improving data availability, quality, sharing, and use across the ML flywheel.

What You'll Do

  • Develop and contribute to Waymo's data infrastructure platform for all ML models.
  • Work with teams across Waymo to understand data needs, distributions, quality, value, and freshness.
  • Improve the efficiency of data storage and data sharing across models.
  • Deploy and integrate data solutions for distillation, evaluation, dataset generation, active learning, and auto-labeling.

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Qualifications

Required qualifications include software engineering experience, C++ programming, and experience building highly scalable distributed systems.

Required

  • 4+ years of professional experience in the field of software engineering
  • Experience programming in C++
  • Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems

Preferred

  • Passionate about building ML infra and tools
  • Experience handling large datasets in the order of exabytes
  • Experience building machine learning infrastructure and model hosting / inference infrastructure
  • Experience with production services with high QPS

Original job description

Content provided by the employer

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.

You will:

  • Develop and contribute to Waymo's data infrastructure platform to enable plant scale ML Flywheel at Waymo for all ML models via data store and data infra ecosystem.
  • Work closely with teams across Waymo both onboard & offboard ML models, including LLMs to understand the data needs, data distributions, data quality, data value, freshness and onboard these flywheels onto our planet scale data store.
  • Improve the efficiency of data storage, data sharing across models.
  • Deploy and integrate data solutions across a variety of use cases, such as distillation, eval, dataset generation, active learning, and auto-labeling across all Waymo ML models

You have:

  • 4+ years of professional experience in the field of software engineering
  • Experience programming in C++
  • Experience with building highly scalable distributed systems

We prefer:

  • Passionate about building ML infra and tools
  • Experience handling large datasets in the order of exabytes
  • Experience building machine learning infrastructure and model hosting / inference infrastructure
  • Experience with production services with high QPS.

#LI-Hybrid

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

About the company

Waymo

Large Enterprise

Waymo is a leading autonomous driving technology company, originally a part of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. Established in 2009, Waymo focuses on developing self-driving cars and innovative transportation solutions designed to enhance mobility and safety on the roads. By employing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, the company aims to revolutionize personal and shared transportation, making it more accessible and efficient. Waymo's efforts contribute significantly to the future of autonomous vehicles and the ongoing shift towards smart transportation systems.