Job brief: Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Infrastructure

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• Listed on Waymo's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-06 (1 day ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $251,000 to $310,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680) · New York City (US-NYC-CHEL) +1
• Posted: 2026-11-05

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• 7+ years of hands-on experience building machine learning systems.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience building production machine learning systems.

Conditions

• Technical leadership in serving production-quality models, including owning launches, reliability, and on-call for services that other teams depend on.

Main duties

• Lead the design and development of ML infrastructure that takes DUE models from data to training to production serving, including event detection models, tri…
• Design and scale distributed systems for large-scale dataset generation, model training, and evaluation across Waymo's real-world and simulation data.
• Own the reliability, efficiency, and observability of production ML serving, including accelerator capacity planning and performance optimization.
• Keep offline evaluation and production inference consistent, so the models we evaluate are the models we serve.
• Drive technical direction for the team, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in New York, NY: $188k a year (481 listings, 41 employers). This listing is 49% higher.
• Across Waymo's 313 open listings, 52% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Waymo hires

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