Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York City, NY, USA · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF680) · Mountain View (US-MTV-EMF690) · New York City (US-NYC-CHEL) · San Francisco (US-SFO-MKT555)
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Roboticsonsitestaff$238k–$302k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build state-of-the-art foundation models for onboard vehicles and simulation.
- Lead end-to-end evaluation systems for quality, safety and realism.
- Help advance the world's most experienced autonomous driver.
What they offer
- Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- 20 days vacation, sick time and 13 holidays
- 28-30 weeks maternity leave and 18 weeks bonding leave
- Annual bonus program and equity incentive plan
Ideal candidate
Creative and product-minded ML engineer excited by foundation models, rigorous evaluation, and landing ambitious research in production to advance safe autonomous driving.
Requirements
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years in ML engineering and applied deep learning with shipped products or publications
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Proficient in Python and C/C++ with strong analytical and debugging skills
- Experience training, evaluating and deploying ML models at scale, ideally generative models and RL
Lab profile
About Waymo
Autonomous driving technology company building the Waymo Driver for fully autonomous ride-hailing.
What they build
- Waymo Driver
- Fully autonomous ride-hail service
Known for
- Large-scale driving simulation
- Simulation realism
- Quantitative evaluations
- Onboard autonomy models
Key facts
- Founded in 2009
- Started as the Google Self-Driving Car Project