Senior Software Engineer - ML, Fraud Prevention

You will:

• Train, evaluate, and ship production machine learning models to score rider risk in real time, directly protecting revenue from payment fraud and reducing vehicle vandalism.

• Engineer and maintain high-throughput, low-latency feature pipelines over payment, trip, device, and identity events, ensuring consistency between offline training and online serving.

• Build and operate the real-time model serving infrastructure integrated into the critical trip creation and payment authorization paths under strict latency and availability budgets.

• Design and implement safe, graduated enforcement mechanisms with full audit trails, reversibility, and support for rider appeals.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Finance, and Safety to balance revenue protection, rider trust, and compliance as Waymo scales to new markets.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building distributed backend systems or production ML systems (Python, Java, Kotlin, C++, Go, or similar).

• Hands-on experience training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models to production.

• Experience serving models or critical business logic in low-latency, high-availability production environments.

• Strong fundamentals in data modeling, and SQL analytics.

We prefer:

• Experience in fraud prevention, risk management, trust & safety, payments, or another adversarial domain where attackers actively adapt.

• Experience with graph/entity-clustering techniques, rules engines, and anomaly detection alongside traditional ML.

• Proven track record building feature/data pipelines and maintaining consistency between training data and real-time inference.

• Experience serving models or critical business logic in low-latency, high-availability production environments.

Disclosure for WA Based & Remote Roles:

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

Health, dental, vision, life, disability insuranceRetirement Benefits: 401(k) with company matchPaid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employmentSick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary) Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks Holidays: 13 paid days per year

US Remote Only: Please note that Waymo may not be able to employ remotely in all US locations. Please speak with your recruiter about your preferred location for remote work when you begin the interview process.