Waymo · 5 months ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception, Scene Understanding
Mountain View, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$204K/yr - $259K/yr
4+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company dedicated to improving mobility and safety through its advanced driving systems. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on perception and scene understanding, responsible for developing state-of-the-art ML models and managing the end-to-end ML pipeline.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)TransportationAutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensor
Responsibilities
Develop state-of-the-art ML models to understand complex scenes, including construction zones, emergency situations, mapless driving, and world changes
Work on the end-to-end ML pipeline, from data mining and labeling to training and deployment of models
Qualification
Required
4+ years of experience in Machine Learning, with a strong focus on computer vision and/or deep learning for perception tasks
Deep understanding of state-of-the-art ML techniques for object classification, detection, tracking, pose estimation, and/or action recognition
Proficiency in at least one major deep learning framework (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX)
Preferred
PhD degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
Experience with multi-modal perception systems (e.g., combining camera, lidar, radar data)
Familiarity with foundation models and techniques for model adaptation (e.g., few-shot learning, transfer learning, domain adaptation)
Experience in optimizing ML models for on-device deployment and real-time performance
Background in autonomous driving, robotics, or a related safety-critical domain
Publications in top-tier ML/CV conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV)
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
$27.1BKey Investors
Alphabet,Dragoneer Investment Group,DST Global,Sequoia CapitalAlphabetFidelity,Perry Creek Capital,T. Rowe Price
2026-02-02Series D· $16B
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Annabel Chang
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