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Waymo · 1 day ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Planner Reasoning

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$204K/yr - $259K/yr

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The role involves designing, developing, and implementing machine learning solutions for autonomous vehicle planning, as well as analyzing model performance and collaborating with various teams.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
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Responsibilities

Design, develop, and implement ML solutions for autonomous vehicle planning including, but not limited to, modeling, reward/loss shaping, finetuning, reinforcement learning, data shaping, etc
Analyze model performance using data-driven techniques to evaluate and compare different approaches
Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in autonomous driving and machine learning, and be able quickly prototype, experiment and deploy novel SOTA solutions
Collaborate closely with partner teams such as perception, research, simulation, and evaluation

Qualification

Applied machine learningDeep learning frameworksLarge scale modelsReinforcement learningPythonC++Feature engineeringLoss/reward shapingData shapingModel evaluationMotion planningVision Language ModelsPrompt engineering

Required

Experience in applied machine learning including deep learning models, reinforcement learning, feature engineering, loss/reward shaping, data shaping, fine tuning and model evaluation
Proficiency in Python and at least one deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow)
Proficiency in dealing with large scale models and datasets
Experience in integrating ML models into complicated systems
PhD, Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field

Preferred

Experience in the autonomous driving domain, including areas like motion planning or perception
Experience with Large Language Models (LLM) or Vision Language Models (VLM), prompt engineering and chain of thought reasoning
Experience in applying ML to a robotics problem
Evaluation experience, contributing to scalable evaluation workflows and building metrics for ML models
Proficiency in C++

Benefits

Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program

Company

Waymo

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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.
dateFounded in 2009
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://waymo.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$11.1B
Key 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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Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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