Waymo · 3 weeks ago
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Perception
Mountain View, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$281K/yr - $356K/yr
8+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Perception will work closely with ML engineers to design and implement multi-stage training systems, optimize training latency, and provide technical leadership for production-critical models.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Work closely with ML engineers and infrastructure teams to design, set the roadmap, and implement the multi-stage training system that builds the foundation models and onboard models
Optimize end-to-end training latency, to meet our release cadence while minimizing time-to-impact from new issues in the field to model update on the car
Solve large-scale training with multi-model, multi-task, and large models, with millions of miles of driving data
Provide technical leadership on the efficacy and efficiency of production critical models’ training system
Drive and accelerate collaborations between Perception, infra teams at Waymo, and Alphabet collaborators
Qualification
Required
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
8+ years of experience in ML-related software development
6+ years of experience in ML-driven production systems that develops models with large-scale data, training, evaluation, and deployment
4+ years of experience in a technical leadership role leading technical teams and setting technical directions
3+ years of experience with computer vision models, or LLMs, or vision language models
Passion to drive engineering excellence and efficient model development through flywheel automation, while having direct technical experience in model quality development to achieve business goals
Preferred
Experience in LLM and / or multi-modality LM pretraining and fine-tuning, and their infrastructure
Experience in model distillation techniques and infrastructure
Familiarity with vision-based models and their development challenges
Agility in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.1BKey Investors
Alphabet
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
2020-05-12Series A· $750M
Leadership Team
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Co-Chief Executive Officer
Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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