Waymo · 17 hours ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception, Data & Systems
Mountain View, CA, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$204K/yr - $259K/yr
6+ years expWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company focused on building the Waymo Driver to improve mobility and save lives. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will work on the Perception team to develop methods for data labeling, model evaluation, and real-world performance metrics for autonomous driving systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)TransportationAutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesSensor
Responsibilities
Create foundation scale data sets and training recipes, develop methods and recipes for human and machine labeling of foundation scale data sets
Create methods and recipes for continuous data intake, selection and incremental updates of large models, develop methods for data mining and recipes for automated data collection/model update flywheels
Develop methods and recipes for evaluating real-world performance of models, and detecting regressions in model updates
Develop and maintain ground-truth free performance metrics
Qualification
Required
Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of deep learning experience
6+ years experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
Experience with Python
Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX
Preferred
Experience in application and optimization of data mining and/or labeling for a production ML system
Experience in Autonomous Vehicle or related industries
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++
Benefits
Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program
Equity incentive plan
Generous Company benefits program
Company
Waymo
Waymo is a mobility technology company that improves transportation by developing self-driving solutions for travelers and daily commuters. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$27.1BKey Investors
Alphabet,Dragoneer Investment Group,DST Global,Sequoia CapitalAlphabetFidelity,Perry Creek Capital,T. Rowe Price
2026-02-02Series D· $16B
2024-07-23Series C· $5.6B
2021-06-16Series B· $2.5B
Leadership Team
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Annabel Chang
Director of U.S. State and Local Public Policy and Political Campaigns
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