# Staff ML Accelerator Architect at Waymo

- Company: Waymo
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, New York, USA
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $251K–310K
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Skills: Compute (7LR)
- Apply: https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8301900

## Description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
 Waymo's Compute Team is tasked with a critical and exciting mission: We deliver the compute platform responsible for running the fully autonomous vehicle's software stack. To achieve our mission, we architect and create high-performance custom silicon; we develop system-level compute architectures that push the boundaries of performance, power, and latency; and we collaborate closely with many other teammates to ensure we design and optimize hardware and software for maximum performance. We are a multidisciplinary team seeking curious and talented teammates to work on one of the world's highest performance automotive compute platforms.
 In this role, you will report to a Hardware Engineering Manager.
 You will: 
• Analyze inference workloads and map them efficiently to hardware, proposing novel HW-friendly implementations and projecting performance
• Build scalable tools for performanc

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