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Staff ML Engineer, Generative Model Performance & Efficiency

Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States; New York City, New York, United States
$251K - $310KOpen 138 daysLeadPythonC++Machine LearningPyTorchTensorFlow

Staff ML Engineer, Generative Model Performance & Efficiency is open at Waymo in Mountain View, California, United States; New York City, New York, United States. The posting gives a salary of $251K - $310K. Posted on Jun 29, 2026, and still on Waymo’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.

About the role

, you will report to a Senior Staff Engineering Manager You will: Analyze model architectures and identify bottlenecks in training and inference performance (e.g., memory bandwidth, compute, communication). Apply and develop techniques such as quantization (e.g., FP8, INT4), pruning, knowledge distillation, and efficient attention mechanisms. Optimize model code for specific hardware accelerators (TPUs, GPUs)…

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