waymo

waymo

Machine Learning Engineer, Sensor Pipelines

Mountain View, CA, USA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$175k-$215kDetected 1 day ago
PythonC++GitMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchComputer VisionLLMsRoboticsSensorsResearchCollaboration

About the role

  • 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.
  • The Sensor Pipelines team applies sensor fusion and ML approaches to address critical challenges in Perception; like detections of Collisions, Antagonistic Behaviors like Vandalism, Sensing Occlusions, etc.

Responsibilities

  • 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 Perception team at Waymo builds technology that powers the Waymo Driver.
  • Our software allows the Waymo Driver to perceive the world around it, make the right decision for every situation, and deliver people safely to their destinations.
  • We conduct research to address real-world problems and collaborate with research teams at Alphabet.
  • We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling software engineers like you to develop multi-modal models and techniques at scale.
  • We have access to millions of miles of driving data from a diverse set of sensors, enabling engineers like you to develop sophisticated models and techniques at scale.
  • Develop data mining, labeling, training and eval pipelines to support the onboard development
  • Collaborate and work in partnership with product, infra and research teams across Waymo

Requirements

  • Experience with C++ and Python
  • Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX

Compensation

  • $175,000 - $215,000 USD

Benefits

  • Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
  • 3+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
  • MS or PhD Degree in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science or a similar discipline
  • Apply sensor fusion, machine learning techniques to build multi-modal sensor fusion architectures and spatial-temporal representation learners to solve real-world challenges
  • Develop and deploy machine learning models, including using Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) system, and non-ML systems to solve those challenging problems

Company info

  • Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver.

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