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Staff ML Engineer, Generative Model Performance & Efficiency

Waymo is hiring for Staff ML Engineer, Generative Model Performance & Efficiency in Mountain View, California, United States; New York City, New York, United States. Staff level. First seen October 15, 2026; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Waymo
Where
Mountain View, California, United States; New York City, New York, United States
Level
Staff
First seen
October 15, 2026
Listed via
Greenhouse

What the posting says

In this 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), leveraging compiler features and low-level libraries (e.g., XLA). Experiment with different model partitioning and sharding strategies (e.g., data, tensor, pipeline…

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