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Senior Staff TLM, Data Mining and Sampling for ML and Evaluation

Waymo· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, California, San Francisco, California, New York City, New York$281k - $356kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior staff technical leadership role focused on data mining and sampling for ML and evaluation in Waymo's autonomous driving context. Hybrid role reporting to a Senior Staff manager, leading a small team of data science–friendly engineers to scale evaluation and ML development across cities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop tools for easy mining of novel situations that might impact safety from our driving logs for use in evaluation and ML datasets, using a mixture of ML and structured data
  • Advanced sampling techniques and tuning of simulations to get strong signal for metrics and models from our datasets
  • Build automation for our mining and sampling ecosystem so Waymo can rapidly scale to new cities
  • Make hands-on technical contributions to both engineering and data science-oriented projects
  • Provide strong management and technical leadership for a small team of data science-friendly engineers
  • Partner with leads and teams across Waymo to determine and execute on strategy, including product, engineering, data science, frontend, and backend

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering design and programming skills
  • Strong data fluency and analysis skills
  • Familiarity with statistical methods including hypothesis testing, experiment design, and sampling
  • Familiarity with foundational and contemporary ML concepts and practices
  • Experience managing teams of up to 8 people
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Statistics, Physics, Math, or other quantitative area
  • 7+ years of industry experience with: C++, SQL, and Python experience; Navigating and modifying a large code base containing C++, SQL, and Python; Building data processing pipelines

Skills

Required:C++SQLPythonData processing pipelines

Benefits

  • Waymo employees are eligible to participate in discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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