Senior Software Engineer/Data Scientist, Large Model Evaluation
WaymoMountain View, California, United States • San Francisco, California, United States
Posted December 17, 2025
204000 - 259000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.
Job Description
Waymo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer/Data Scientist to join the Large Model Evaluation team. The team is responsible for measuring the driving trajectories generated by ML models and providing reliable performance insights that inform model development and deployment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience in a heavily quantitative software engineering area
- Experience navigating complex technical and product landscapes, defining technical strategy, and creating roadmaps
- Proficiency in programming in Python or C++
- Experience with software design principles, coding best practices, testing methodologies, and version control software
- Experience building software pipelines for data processing, system evaluation, or metric computation, in the context of large-scale systems
- Knowledge of AI fundamentals, such as transformer architectures, distillation techniques, etc.
- Experience evaluating the quality of ML models
- Demonstrated experience taking quantitative findings through to productionized tools
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program