CareerPlan

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Infrastructure

Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680)Full-time$251k–$310k2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10
Based in United States

Core

Design and operate scalable ML infrastructure and data systems for the Waymo Driver's evaluation, training, and simulation workflows.

Role type

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Builds

Scalable ML infrastructure, distributed data systems, simulation workflows, and insight tools for autonomous vehicle evaluation.

Domain

Autonomous driving, machine learning infrastructure, large-scale simulation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, C++, JAX, TensorFlow, Pytorch, distributed systems, accelerator capacity planning, performance optimization, technical direction, architectural design, mentorship

Preferred skills

M.S./Ph.D. in CS/ML, 10+ years production ML experience, low-latency inference on TPU/GPU, distributed training profiling, autonomous vehicles/robotics experience

Technologies

JAX, TensorFlow, PyTorch, TPU, GPU

Responsibilities

Lead design and development of ML infrastructure from data to production serving; Design and scale distributed systems for dataset generation and model training; Own reliability and observability of production ML serving; Ensure consistency between offline evaluation and production inference; Drive technical direction and mentor engineers; Collaborate with cross-functional teams on technical deliverables.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership