Waymo

Waymo

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Tech Lead, Labeling Automation

Mountain View, CA, USA · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$251k-$310kDetected 16 hours ago
PythonC++Machine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchComputer VisionLLMsA/B TestingResearchLeadership

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.
  • Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and deployment of highly scalable auto-labeling pipelines that significantly improve data throughput and reduce our reliance on manual annotation bottlenecks.
  • Develop automated anomaly detection and quality evaluation systems (auto-graders) to assess annotation accuracy, detect regressions, and enforce rigorous quality standards across millions of labels.
  • As a Staff Software Engineer (L6) on the Labeling Team, you will lead the technical strategy for automating our data pipelines.
  • You will build cutting-edge auto-labeling systems to drastically scale our throughput and develop intelligent auto-graders to guarantee exceptional data quality.
  • Experience building internal tooling for ML developers

Requirements

  • Experience programming in C++ or Python

Compensation

  • $251,000 - $310,000 USD

Benefits

  • Train, optimize, and push into production advanced 2D and 3D computer vision models.

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