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Tech Lead Manager ML Optimization
Waymo LLC · 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 290 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 87 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Waymo LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles8 certified filings for “Product Manager” (Information Technology Project Managers) in CA: $207k–$245k, median $230k. Most were filed at wage level IV (63%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 290 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 87 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. The Waymo ML Infrastructure team accelerates Waymo’s mission, by building the best ecosystem for sustainably innovating and shipping ML powered intelligence. Research, Production, and the Hardware teams are our primary stakeholders and our work powers the development of the state of the art models in the areas of Perception and Trajectory planning that are core to our autonomous driving software. We enable our partners by offering the best in class solutions for the entire model development lifecycle. These solutions include understanding the model business goals and platform hardware characteristics, and codesign the models for the hardwares. These solutions are developed in close collaboration with teams at different modeling teams. Scale and efficiency are core tenets our infra follows. We are looking for an experienced senior TLM to join our team. In this critical role, you will lead the development and enable efficient deployment for large-scale machine learning models using state of the art advanced AI infrastructure. You will work cross functionally at the intersection of data engineering, model development, and Datacenter + on-device low-latency deployments, ensuring seamless integration across teams and technologies to power efficient innovation. You will Take ownership of improving model efficiency on different platforms and drive the model system codesign practice that meet both technical and business requirements. You will work with cutting-edge ML models that may consist of multiple billions of parameters, and apply your expertise in model optimizations and advanced algorithms toward efficient execution and deliver results on multiple hardware compute platforms. The key responsibilities for this role include: • Technical Leadership: Proactively study the SOTA model architectures and optimizations from the community and Google, for World Models, Diffusion + flow matching techniques, and translate them into measurable technical deliverables in Waymo’s onboard driving stack. • Performance Analysis: Dev tooling innovation for model performance inspector in highly distributed training/inference setups, apply roofline analysis, understand the efficiency headrooms and drive work groups to deliver the optimizations and meet the system requirements. • Strong Execution: Innovate high performance optimizations and tools for various models and large-scale training/inference including on future next-gen TPUs and low-bit precision training/inference setup, and ensure all system components align towards achieving high performance and goodput goals. • Cross-Team Leadership: Guide efforts across multiple teams and organizations to ensure seamless integration of data generation, model development, and deployment pipelines. • Mentorship & Management: Act as a mentor to junior engineers, helping to grow their technical expertise and foster a culture of collaboration and engineering excellence. Manage the IC performance for a medium size team of ~10 engineers. You Have • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at l