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Staff Tech Lead, ML Data Infrastructure and Inference Platform

Waymo· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, California$251k - $310kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Staff Tech Lead role leading the ML data infrastructure and inference platform at Waymo, focusing on planet-scale data stores, data infra ecosystem, and enabling ML Flywheels across Waymo’s models and foundation models.

Responsibilities

  • As a Tech Lead you’ll build, lead and contribute to Waymo’s ML data infrastructure platform to enable planet scale ML Flywheel for all ML models at Waymo via data store and data infra ecosystem.
  • Work closely with teams across Waymo both onboard & offboard Foundation models, to understand the data infra needs, data distributions, data quality, data value, freshness and onboard these flywheels onto our planet scale data store and ensure the seamless adoption and guide the development of our infra components.
  • You will closely lead, mentor and guide a team of engineers to build and onboard teams to the infrastructure efficiently.
  • The team has a large surface area and scope in terms of impact, cross team collaboration and direct interaction with ML models at Waymo.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional experience in the field of software engineering
  • Experience tech leading projects with high cross team collaboration
  • Experience tech leading a team of engineers on complex projects
  • Experience in programming C++
  • Experience with building highly scalable distributed system
  • Experience with ML Data and ML Flywheels

Skills

Required:Software engineeringC++Distributed systems

Benefits

  • 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.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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