- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Mountain ViewCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Mar 13, 2026
- Salary
- $298,000–$378,000 a year
Tech Lead Manager ML Optimization
Job description
The Waymo ML Infrastructure team accelerates Waymo’s mission, by building the best ecosystem for sustainably innovating and shipping ML powered intelligence.
Research, Production, and the Hardware teams are our primary stakeholders and our work powers the development of the state of the art models in the areas of Perception and Trajectory planning that are core to our autonomous driving software. We enable our partners by offering the best in class solutions for the entire model development lifecycle. These solutions include understanding the model business goals and platform hardware characteristics, and codesign the models for the hardwares.
We are looking for an experienced senior TLM to…
Job responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Proactively study the SOTA model architectures and optimizations from the community and Google, for World Models, Diffusion + flow matching techniques, and translate them into measurable technical…
- Performance Analysis: Dev tooling innovation for model performance inspector in highly distributed training/inference setups, apply roofline analysis, understand the efficiency headrooms and drive work groups to…
- Strong Execution: Innovate high performance optimizations and tools for various models and large-scale training/inference including on future next-gen TPUs and low-bit precision training/inference setup, and ensure all…
- Cross-Team Leadership: Guide efforts across multiple teams and organizations to ensure seamless integration of data generation, model development, and deployment pipelines.
- Mentorship & Management: Act as a mentor to junior engineers, helping to grow their technical expertise and foster a culture of collaboration and engineering excellence.
Job requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in machine learning infrastructure such as developing, training, deploying, and optimizing large-scale machine learning systems.
- Experienced using ML accelerator profiling tools to uncover performance bottlenecks.
- Solid experience in the development and optimization of machine learning infrastructure tools like DeepSpeed, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or similar frameworks.
- Deep understanding of state-of-the-art machine learning models and architectures such as autoregressive and diffusion transformers and familiarity with custom-kernels for diverse h/w compute based efficiency.
- Strong leadership skills with experience navigating cross-functional teams and providing technical leadership projects across multiple organizations.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for a broad audience.
- A Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
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