Waymo · 12 hours ago
Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$238K/yr - $302K/yr
7+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The role involves owning the panoptic segmentation task, collaborating with ML engineering teams, and developing efficient model architectures for occupancy and segmentation.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Own the panoptic segmentation task (instance segmentation and semantic segmentation), take responsibility for task scaling and task performance, take ownership of aligning instance segmentation and object detection/tracking (in particular in an end-to-end architecture), create ML methods and recipes to scale and improve tasks
Collaborate with ML engineering/research teams to develop efficient model architectures for representing occupancy and panoptic segmentation, and train and deploy such models with a focus on using large pre-trained models
Collaborate with partner teams to establish efficient human and machine labeling workflows
Analyze panoptic segmentation issues in real-world application, identify issues and root causes, advise or develop short- and long-term solutions
Develop and maintain metrics for 4D (3D + time) instance segmentation and semantic segmentation
Qualification
Required
Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
7+ 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
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Elisa de Martel
Chief Financial Officer
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