Waymo · 3 months ago
Senior Staff Technical Lead/Manager, Mapping Machine Learning
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$281K/yr - $356K/yr
6+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The Waymo Mapping team seeks a Senior Staff Technical Lead/Manager to manage ML engineers and develop machine learning models for creating high-resolution maps to support safe autonomous driving.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Manage a team of ML engineers to design, train, and deploy machine learning models to automate the creation of Waymo's HD maps, unlocking scale for the Waymo Driver
Define a technical strategy for Mapping Automation that scales to mapping the whole world
Apply and advance state-of-the-art ML techniques, including Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and other Generative AI approaches, to pioneer new solutions in mapping automation
Collaborate closely with partner ML teams, such as Waymo Perception and Waymo AI Foundations, to adapt cutting-edge research into scalable, reliable, and production-grade solutions
Qualification
Required
6+ years of hands-on experience in Machine Learning, preferably with a strong focus on computer vision and/or deep learning
2+ years of direct people management experience
Demonstrated experience owning problems end-to-end and working across various parts of the systems stack to deliver results
B.S. in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
M.S. or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
Familiarity with foundation models and techniques for model adaptation (e.g., few-shot learning, transfer learning, domain adaptation)
A track record of publications in top-tier ML/CV conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV)
Experience with C++
Direct experience with mapping or GIS is a bonus but not required
Benefits
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
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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