Senior Software Engineer, Simulation ML Infrastructure

Waymo is a pioneering company in autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most trusted driver. Originating from the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has committed to developing the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access and save countless lives lost in traffic accidents. Our technology powers a fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be adapted to various vehicle platforms and applications. With over ten million rider-only trips and extensive experience driving more than 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions of simulation miles across 15+ U.S. states, we are at the forefront of this transformative journey.The Simulation ML Infrastructure team is focused on creating scalable AI/ML infrastructure that accelerates the Simulator team in developing state-of-the-art realistic simulations for testing and training the Waymo Driver. To enhance the realism and steerability of these simulations, we leverage large foundation models trained on vast datasets to accurately represent the real world, including realistic agents (vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists), road systems, traffic control measures, and environmental conditions.We are looking for a seasoned senior individual contributor to spearhead the advancement of sophisticated AI/ML infrastructure for multi-billion parameter foundation models within ML accelerator-friendly simulations. Your expertise in massive model scaling, ML accelerators, and large-scale distributed systems will be essential in designing and scaling our systems.This position reports to an Engineering Manager.Your Responsibilities:Join a top-tier, high-performing research engineering team to push the boundaries of ultra-realistic multi-agent simulations using foundation models.Collaborate closely with the Waymo Realism Modeling team located in London and the Waymo Oxford team to utilize large foundation models for enhancing simulation realism.Operate at the intersection of data engineering, model development, and simulations, making architectural decisions. Take ownership of large, complex systems, and ensure that architectures and designs align with both technical and business objectives.Design and scale extensive distributed systems that encompass the entire ML lifecycle, facilitating planet-scale dataset generation, model training, and evaluation.Work cross-functionally to derive performance and system-level requirements for large ML systems. Convert product and business goals into measurable technical deliverables, ensuring alignment of system components.

About Us Nuro is a pioneering self-driving technology company dedicated to making autonomous solutions accessible to everyone. Established in 2016, we are developing the most scalable autonomous driver by integrating advanced AI with automotive-grade hardware. Our flagship technology, the Nuro Driver™, is licensed to facilitate a variety of applications, including robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. With proven technology from years of self-driving deployments, Nuro provides automakers and mobility platforms with a clear pathway to achieving commercial-scale autonomous vehicles, promoting a safer, more connected future. Role Overview At Nuro, we adopt a machine-learning-first strategy in our approach to autonomous driving technology. The performance of our systems is significantly influenced by the quality and diversity of training and evaluation data. Your team will be pivotal in enhancing our autonomous driving systems by establishing a robust and scalable data infrastructure. This infrastructure will generate training and evaluation data from both real-world driving logs and simulated environments. Collaborating closely with system engineers, you will ensure thorough validation of the autonomous driving system prior to deployment. Key Responsibilities Design and implement cohesive, introspectable data pipelines capable of processing large-scale batch and streaming data across diverse evaluation use cases. Develop a storage solution that efficiently manages extensive volumes and a wide variety of performance metrics. Create user-friendly dashboards and reports to display evaluation results, enabling easy comparisons to highlight improvements and regressions in ML components and the overall system. Establish and maintain continuous testing and monitoring systems to ensure the integrity and robustness of our data and data pipelines. Build data mining tools utilizing applied ML techniques to meet data discovery requirements in areas such as Perception, Behavior, and Mapping. Develop data annotation tools to aid both first-party and third-party labeling efforts, ensuring high-fidelity perception, mapping, and trajectory labels. Scale data annotation labels with cutting-edge ML techniques. Qualifications A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (BS, MS, or PhD) combined with at least 4 years of relevant professional experience. Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages. Experience in data engineering, machine learning, or related fields. Familiarity with data pipeline tools and frameworks. Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Join Nuro as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning Platform Infrastructure. You will be at the forefront of developing and enhancing our innovative ML platform that powers autonomous delivery vehicles. Your expertise will directly contribute to improving our algorithms and infrastructure, ensuring efficient and scalable performance.In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize the underlying infrastructure for machine learning applications. You will also mentor junior engineers and drive best practices in software development.

About UsAt Aurora, our mission is to revolutionize transportation through safe and efficient self-driving technology, making it accessible to everyone.Explore the Aurora Driver and discover how we are paving the way for a new era in mobility and logistics.Join our team of dedicated professionals at Aurora, where you will engage in complex challenges and continuously enhance your expertise in a collaborative atmosphere. For updates, visit aurora.tech or connect with us on LinkedIn.We are on the lookout for a skilled and driven Staff Software Engineer to spearhead a new team focused on enhancing and modernizing our Offline Testing Infrastructure (OTI). OTI serves as a vital middle-layer infrastructure that supports our PR testing, test creation, and Verification & Validation (V&V) processes.This role is critical, with a strong emphasis on increasing the efficiency of our engineering teams and ensuring the reliability of our release cycles. The ideal candidate will build and lead a small, dedicated team to transition OTI to a stable, high-performance, and scalable platform.Responsibilities:Team Leadership: Act as the technical lead for the OTI team, guiding the strategic vision, execution, and long-term stability of our core infrastructure.Testing Ecosystem Development:Design a next-generation offline testing architecture that meets diverse team requirements, minimizes redundancy, and fosters collaboration across the organization.Collaborate with Test Creation and Test Drive teams to...

Waymo is a pioneering company in autonomous driving technology, dedicated to becoming the world's most reliable driver. Originating as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, we have concentrated on creating the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver™—to enhance mobility access while preventing countless lives lost to traffic incidents. With over ten million rider-only trips completed and having driven autonomously over 100 million miles on public roads as well as tens of billions in simulations across more than 15 U.S. states, the Waymo Driver powers our fully autonomous ride-hail service and is adaptable to various vehicle platforms and applications.The Simulator Team at Waymo is dedicated to constructing sophisticated simulations of realistic environments for the testing and training of the Waymo Driver. You will be a part of a diverse and collaborative group of machine learning (ML) engineers, software engineers, and data scientists. Our goal is to deliver industry-leading simulation solutions by utilizing advanced ML algorithms to assess and enhance the Waymo Driver's performance. We achieve this by accurately modeling the real world, which includes realistic agents (such as vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists), roadways, traffic control systems, and weather conditions, complemented by a comprehensive sensor suite including cameras, LiDAR, and radars.To amplify the fidelity, scalability, and controllability of our simulations, we leverage cutting-edge ML technologies, including large language models, foundational world models, and reconstructive methods trained on extensive datasets, alongside traditional rendering techniques.In this hybrid role, you will report directly to a Senior Staff Engineering Manager.

At Coupang, we are dedicated to delivering an exceptional experience for our customers. Our goal is to elicit the reaction, "How did we ever live without Coupang?" With a relentless passion for simplifying shopping, dining, and living, we are transforming the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce landscape from the ground up. We have rapidly emerged as one of the leading e-commerce companies in South Korea, known for our reliability and innovation. We embody the best of both worlds — a startup-like atmosphere paired with the resources of a global public enterprise. This unique combination propels our growth and accelerates the launch of new services, maintaining the swift pace we established at our inception. Our team is filled with entrepreneurial spirits eager to initiate new projects and innovations. At Coupang, you will witness personal, team, and company growth each day. Our mission to revolutionize commerce is genuine. We continuously push the limits of what is achievable, tackling challenges and dismantling traditional trade-offs. Join Coupang and contribute to creating an extraordinary experience in today’s fast-paced, technologically advanced, and interconnected world. Role Overview As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the ML Infrastructure team for Search & Discovery, you will be tasked with designing and implementing robust and efficient software solutions that manage vast amounts of structured and unstructured data necessary for training complex machine learning models and serving them effectively online. The Search & Discovery team is pivotal in optimizing our customers' navigation experience and driving sustained growth. Each week, over 20 million customers utilize search on our app or coupang.com, with more than a third making purchases. A significant portion of Coupang's sales is directly linked to search and recommendation features, with many business strategies and growth initiatives being influenced by ranking and recommendation algorithms. This position offers a chance to develop scalable offline and online machine learning platforms to support ranking, recommendation, and business decision-making. You will work with billions of user interaction records and petabytes of raw log files, converting them into actionable data formats for engineers and scientists. Additionally, you will be responsible for delivering complex machine learning models in real-time, facilitating millions of Coupang customers in discovering and searching for products. If you are passionate about big data engineering, scalable serving systems, and making a tangible business impact, this role is an excellent fit for you.

At Databricks, we are committed to empowering data teams to tackle some of the world's most significant challenges—ranging from revolutionizing transportation to accelerating medical breakthroughs. Our mission is realized through the development and management of the foremost data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our clients to derive deep insights from their data to enhance business outcomes. Founded by engineers and driven by a passion for customer success, we eagerly embrace each opportunity to confront technical hurdles, from innovating next-generation UI/UX for data interaction to scaling our services across millions of virtual machines. Our journey has just begun.As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be a pivotal member of the executive leadership team within the Data Platform organization. You will utilize cutting-edge AI developer tools and methodologies to construct the Data Intelligence Platform, which will facilitate automated decision-making across Databricks. This role involves collaboration with distinguished Tech Leads, product teams, data scientists, and others. You will shape the future of various tools, including logging, orchestration, data transformation, metric stores, governance platforms, and data consumption layers.

Join our innovative team at Nuro as a Software Engineer specializing in ML Platform Infrastructure. In this role, you will be at the forefront of developing and enhancing machine learning infrastructure that powers our autonomous delivery vehicles. You will work collaboratively with data scientists and engineers to build scalable and efficient systems that support various machine learning applications.

At Databricks, we are dedicated to empowering data and AI teams to tackle some of the world's most significant challenges — from transforming transportation to expediting medical innovations. Our mission is to create and maintain the premier data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our clients to leverage deep data insights to enhance their businesses. Founded by engineers with a customer-first mentality, we eagerly embrace every opportunity to address technical challenges, whether it’s designing next-gen UI/UX for data interaction or scaling our services across millions of virtual machines. And we are just getting started. As a member of the ML/AI Environments team, you will develop the systems that allow AI researchers and engineers to effortlessly establish their desired training and serving environments. You’ll join a high-agency, high-visibility team at the cutting edge of AI infrastructure, closely connected to research, product development, and real-world enterprise applications. Databricks Mosaic AI is one of our fastest-growing sectors, assisting thousands of customers in democratizing AI within their organizations. We are building the infrastructure that fuels the next generation of AI.

Nuro develops self-driving technology, aiming to make autonomous vehicles accessible for everyone. Since 2016, the team has blended advanced AI with automotive-grade hardware, licensing the Nuro Driver™ to support robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. Partnerships with automakers and mobility platforms help bring these autonomous solutions to commercial scale. The Senior Software Engineer - Software Update Infrastructure role is part of the Fleet Connectivity team based in Mountain View, California. This position focuses on building and maintaining systems that support release infrastructure and over-the-air (OTA) updates for Nuro’s autonomous vehicles. The work covers both cloud and robotics stacks, ensuring reliable network connectivity, telemetry, and software updates that are vital to Nuro’s mission. What you will do Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain software for release infrastructure and OTA updates. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables within the team and when working with other groups. Write high-quality, testable code that meets strict code quality standards. Monitor release system performance by defining and tracking KPIs, and implement optimizations to improve build costs, times, and storage usage. Create testing and validation programs to ensure system architecture and data flows are reliable. Contribute to documentation and participate in on-call rotations during business hours. Requirements 5+ years of experience working with large-scale distributed systems. Proficiency in C++ or Go. Comfortable working in Unix/Linux environments and with Bash scripting. Ability to translate broad requirements into detailed system designs. Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and distributed system software design. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field. Bonus points Experience with SQL. Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). UI development experience. Background in OTA updates execution and management.

Join Waymo as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Simulation Infrastructure, where you will lead the development of innovative simulation tools and frameworks that enhance our self-driving technology. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design robust software solutions that drive our mission to make transportation safer and more accessible through autonomous driving.

Waymo is a pioneering company in the realm of autonomous driving technology, striving to become the most reliable driver globally. Since its inception as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been dedicated to developing the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—which enhances mobility access while significantly reducing traffic-related fatalities. The Waymo Driver underpins our fully autonomous ride-hail service and can be utilized across various vehicle platforms and use cases. With over ten million rider-only trips completed, our technology has autonomously navigated over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulated environments across more than 15 U.S. states.Role Overview: As a key member of the Waymo ML Infrastructure team, you will collaborate with both Research and Production teams to refine models in Perception and Planning that are vital to our autonomous driving software. You will provide the optimal solutions for the entire model development lifecycle, developed in close partnership with Google teams. Your primary focus will be on enhancing the runtime efficiency of input data pipelines for large-scale training workloads, presenting a unique opportunity to advance ML systems and improve our model training processes.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in Compute Infrastructure, you'll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure systems. Your expertise will help drive performance and scalability, ensuring our platforms support the ever-increasing demand for data processing and storage. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions that enhance our technology stack.

Your Role As a key member of the Core Infrastructure team at Moveworks, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the next evolution of our AI infrastructure. With Moveworks experiencing rapid growth, the infrastructure team is charged with creating and maintaining robust foundational services and frameworks that empower our products to scale effortlessly while enabling our engineering teams to rapidly develop customer-facing features. Collaborate closely with teams in machine learning, search, product development, data, and frontend engineering to assess infrastructure requirements, shape the infrastructure roadmap, and spearhead various projects. Design and develop core infrastructure and essential functionalities including distributed key-value stores, schema-less data storage, authentication and authorization mechanisms, event streaming, distributed configuration management, rate limiting, circuit breaking, feature flagging systems, A/B testing, and traffic capture and replay. Enhance the observability and reliability of Moveworks systems by improving distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting capabilities. Establish methodologies and metrics for assessing the performance of microservices and product functionalities, identify and resolve bottlenecks, and enhance the performance and scalability of Moveworks applications. Consistently deliver time-sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams.

Join Nuro as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Perception Data Infrastructure. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for developing and optimizing systems that process perception data, enabling our autonomous vehicles to navigate safely and efficiently. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our data infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability.

Moveworks is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Core Infrastructure to help advance the platform that powers automated IT issue resolution. This position is based in Mountain View. Role overview This role centers on building and improving the foundational systems that support Moveworks’ automation platform. As part of the core infrastructure team, you will work closely with other engineers to design, develop, and maintain systems that scale reliably. What you will do Collaborate with engineering peers to shape the architecture of critical infrastructure components Implement solutions that support seamless automation and platform growth Contribute ideas and expertise to ongoing improvements in system performance and reliability Who we’re looking for Engineers who enjoy tackling complex infrastructure challenges Individuals motivated to deliver software that improves user experience and operational efficiency Those who thrive in a collaborative, evolving environment

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Platform team at Moveworks, where you will significantly contribute to the advancement of our conversational AI platform. In this role, you will have the chance to develop enterprise products that tackle real-world challenges using our cutting-edge machine learning technology. Your responsibilities will include creating foundational frameworks and services that abstract product needs, providing scalable and reliable components, and establishing an enterprise data platform tailored for diverse product requirements.Design and implement highly reliable, performant, and secure platform components.Shape the platform team's roadmap while taking ownership of the evolution of multiple platform areas.Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.Consistently meet deadlines on projects that are interdependent with other engineering efforts.Challenge existing processes and drive continuous improvement within the platform.Participate regularly in peer code reviews and engineering design discussions.

About Us Nuro is at the forefront of self-driving technology, striving to make autonomous driving accessible to everyone. Established in 2016, we are dedicated to developing the world’s most scalable driver by merging advanced artificial intelligence with automotive-grade hardware. Our flagship technology, the Nuro Driver™, is licensed across various applications, including robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. With proven technology from years of successful self-driving deployments, we provide automakers and mobility platforms with a clear pathway to commercial-scale autonomous vehicles, paving the way for a safer, more connected future. Role Overview At Nuro, we prioritize a machine-learning-centric approach to autonomous driving. The performance of our systems relies significantly on the volume and diversity of training and evaluation data. Our team is vital in enhancing autonomous driving systems by ensuring high-quality labeled data accessibility. This is achieved through a sophisticated labeling stack that includes a workflow execution framework, supporting infrastructure, and an array of data annotation tools. Our autonomy stack is powered by an industry-leading sensor suite, capable of efficiently processing and annotating millions of sensor data points weekly. The platform team's mission is to ensure that labeled data is readily available for all users. Our systems must be dependable and scalable, encompassing everything from request submissions to progress tracking, data dumping, and model development. We work closely with autonomy engineers to guarantee the labeled data's quality and comprehensiveness. As Nuro expands its services, it becomes increasingly critical to capture and promptly triage all issues. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain highly available and fault-tolerant systems for data annotation. Productionize core infrastructure for our cutting-edge autonomy system. Enhance label quality through data-driven metrics and monitoring. Leverage state-of-the-art ML research to automate and optimize the data labeling lifecycle. Qualifications Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field with 5+ years of industry experience. Proven experience in designing, building, and operating highly scalable and reliable distributed data systems. Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects with strong communication skills. Expertise in data processing and machine learning techniques.

About NewsBreakEstablished in 2015, NewsBreak is a pioneering Content Intelligence platform redefining the content economy. With a robust user base of over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers tailored local news and information, powered by cutting-edge AI, recommendation systems, and advanced adtech.Acknowledged by Fast Company as #32 among the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we proudly hold Great Place to Work® certification and foster a vibrant team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders dedicated to addressing significant challenges at scale.Achieving unicorn status in 2021, we remain steadfast in our commitment to high growth, seeking the ideal team to realize our mission: to establish the foundational infrastructure for content intelligence.If you’re driven to dream big, innovate rapidly, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you! For more details, visit www.newsbreak.com/aboutAbout the Role:We are seeking a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to join us in building the pivotal infrastructure that trains, serves, and monitors the models behind our Ads and Recommendations products. You will be part of a small, high-responsibility team that implements platform enhancements end-to-end—collaborating with product and data teams to minimize latency and costs while expediting the transition from concept to safely launched model.Your role will encompass the entire ML lifecycle: enhancing training efficiency and reliability, optimizing model serving performance, and fortifying our feature/embedding platform to ensure models remain current and consistent across offline and online applications. We are looking for someone who takes genuine ownership, completes tasks, and elevates the standards for stability and developer experience.Why This Role:Scope & Impact: Join a small team with a significant influence—your contributions will directly impact production.Ownership: Manage everything from design to rollout and post-launch insights; enjoy real autonomy with support.Growth: Gain visibility across the stack and a clear pathway to lead projects and mentor others.Pragmatic Culture: We prioritize outcomes over jargon, valuing clear thinking and follow-through.

About NuroNuro is at the forefront of self-driving technology, driven by our mission to make autonomous vehicles accessible to everyone. Established in 2016, we are developing the most scalable driver, integrating advanced AI with high-quality automotive hardware. Our flagship technology, the Nuro Driver™, is licensed for various applications, including robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personal vehicles. With years of proven technology in self-driving deployments, we provide automakers and mobility platforms a clear pathway to achieving commercial-scale autonomous vehicles, fostering a safer, more connected future.Your RoleWe invite you to join our expanding Infrastructure team as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Cloud Infrastructure. In this role, you will:Engage collaboratively across teams at Nuro to ensure alignment with customer needs.Design and implement high-quality, scalable solutions for infrastructure-as-code, application deployment, production system monitoring, health status tracking, and performance enhancements.Develop automation tools to enhance developer experience, infrastructure reliability, and security.