Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Multi-Modal Perception
WaymoAbout Waymo
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo's fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
About the Perception Team
The Perception team builds the system which learns the spatial-temporal representation and their semantic meanings of the surrounding environment of the autonomously driving vehicle (ADV), i.e., the system that "perceives" the world around the car. The team works jointly with downstream teams on the optimization and integration into the Waymo Driver, conducts its own research to address real-world problems, and collaborates with research teams at Alphabet. The team has access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors.
The Role
This is a hybrid position reporting to a Technical Lead Manager.
Responsibilities
- Own tasks in the ML Driver, take responsibility for task scaling and task performance, create ML methods and recipes to scale and improve tasks
- Analyze behavior of ML systems in real-world application, identify issues and root causes, advise or develop short- and long-term solutions
- Monitor ML systems in production, develop methods for automatically detecting issues or regressions, develop AI-aided analysis and debugging tooling
- Develop and maintain metrics for ADV relevant issues, including safety-critical and longtail issues
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
- 5+ years experience in Machine Learning and Computer Vision
- Experience with Python
- Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX
Preferred Qualifications
- 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++
Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range: $251,000—$310,000 USD
The expected base salary range is across US locations. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process.
Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo's discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.
About Waymo
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that develops the Waymo Driver, an automated driving system. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, the company's fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. Waymo is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. and originated from the Google Self-Driving Car Project.
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