Waymo · 5 hours ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM Evaluation
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$238K/yr - $302K/yr
5+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. The role involves leading the development of evaluation systems for Waymo Foundation models and collaborating with teams to implement innovative technology in production.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensorTransportation
Responsibilities
Work with a creative team of people who help to build the state-of-the-art Foundation Models that are used throughout Waymo’s systems, both onboard autonomous vehicles and offboard in simulation
Lead the development of end-to-end evaluation systems and benchmarks for Waymo Foundation models, encompassing the entire lifecycle from pretraining and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to reinforcement learning (RL), for evaluating the quality, safety, and realism of embodied AI agents
Partner within and across organizations to land disruptive and innovative tech in production
Implement and extend large large scale data and evaluation pipelines
Qualification
Required
Master's degree or PhD degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of experience in ML engineering and applied Deep Learning, with a strong portfolio of shipped products or publication record
Experience with large scale distributed system
Proficient programming skills (eg: Python, C/C++)
Strong analytical and debugging skills
Preferred
ML infra experience: training, evaluating and deploying ML models at scale
Deep learning experience, especially with generative models, e.g., LLMs/VLMs, and/or reinforcement learning
Proficiency and in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of an ML framework (e.g. Pytorch, JAX, Tensorflow)
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
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$27.1BKey Investors
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
Director of U.S. State and Local Public Policy and Political Campaigns
Recent News
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