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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)

CHECKED 6H AGO

Roboticsonsitestaff$238k–$302k
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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
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