Who you are - 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with extensive experience in a technical leadership role - A strong track record of designing and building large-scale systems that support ML development, with very large-scale data and worker payloads - 6+ years of experience in a technical leadership role, guiding teams and setting the technical direction within large engineering organizations - A proven history of solving users' needs end-to-end, working backward from user requirements to design and evolve complex systems - Experience driving cross-organizational efforts to transition large systems through major evolutions while supporting high production demands - Expertise in modern ML data, training, and evaluation systems for large models - Experience with budget management (e.g., compute, storage, memory) for workflows that support hundreds of developers ### What the job involves - The Perception team at Waymo builds technology that powers the Waymo Driver - Our models allow the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations - We conduct research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet - We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, allowing ML practitioners like you to develop multi-modal models and techniques at scale - You will report to our Head of Perception - Work closely with Perception engineers to understand their workflows and systems, with the goal of increasing development velocity - Act as a crucial bridge between Perception and all infrastructure teams to ensure optimal resource sharing and performance for scaling - Drive multi-year roadmaps for Perception systems, anticipating future scale based on business and technology roadmaps - Lead system design in collaboration with both infrastructure teams and Perception users