Waymo · 3 weeks ago
Machine Learning Engineer, Perception Modeling
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$170K/yr - $216K/yr
3+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on improving mobility and safety through its advanced driver technology. The Perception team is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to develop and optimize machine learning techniques for spatial-temporal representation and sensor fusion architectures in autonomous vehicles.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Apply machine learning techniques to build multi-modal sensor fusion architectures and spatial-temporal representation learners for object detection and tracking, occupancy and semantic segmentation, road understanding, etc
Develop scalable recipes for large data, large model training running on Alphabet’s compute infrastructure, create methods and recipes for pre-training and post-training
Develop methods and recipes for distributed fine-tuning enabling multiple developers to simultaneously improve the model, develop methods and recipes to avoid regression against a production system
Develop and maintain model evaluation recipes and metrics for measuring and improving performance of pre-trained and fine-tuned models
Qualification
Required
Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
3+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
Experience with Python
Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX
Preferred
MS or PhD Degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science or a similar discipline
Publications at top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IROS, RSS, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, PAMI
Experience with C++
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
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Chief Financial Officer
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