Tech Lead, Self Driving Eval Infrastructure Senior Staff Software Engineer, TLM Staff Software Engineer, Multiverse Senior Staff Engineer, DevAI (AI)

TL;DR

Tech Lead, Self Driving Eval Infrastructure (AI): Building and architecting core data platforms and a single source of truth data lake for autonomous driving evaluation with an accent on data governance, metrics standardization, and distributed systems. Focus on optimizing the data development lifecycle, designing scalable data-centric APIs, and enhancing developer productivity for high-scale autonomous vehicle data.

Location: Onsite in Mountain View, California

Salary: $281,000—$356,000 USD

Company

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company developing the Waymo Driver to improve mobility and save lives through fully autonomous ride-hail services.

What you will do

• Lead the architectural design and technical strategy for core data platforms, including a "Single Source of Truth" data lake for Commercialization.
• Establish and enforce comprehensive data governance frameworks to enhance data discoverability and quality across the ecosystem.
• Drive initiatives to improve developer productivity and streamline workflows within the data engineering and metrics development functions.
• Act as the lead technical liaison with Simulation, Onboard, ML, and Commercialization teams to define data contracts and technical solutions.
• Mentor senior engineers and champion best practices in system reliability, efficiency, and innovation.

Requirements

• Proven track record of setting technical vision and driving multi-quarter roadmaps for senior engineering teams.
• Extensive experience architecting and operating large-scale distributed data systems such as data lakes, lakehouse, or streaming platforms.
• Deep expertise in implementing data governance principles, metadata systems, and data lineage at scale.
• Strong experience in designing data-centric APIs, schemas, and data contracts for long-term maintainability.
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one of C++, Java, or Python.
• Must be based in or able to work onsite in Mountain View, California.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with autonomous vehicle operations, logistics, or ride-hailing business domains.
• Experience with Google's data infrastructure (F1 Query, Napa, Flume, Plx) or GCP services like BigQuery and Cloud Dataflow.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute to the world's most experienced autonomous driver technology.
• Participation in a discretionary annual bonus program.
• Equity incentive plan.
• Generous company benefits program.