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Waymo

Staff ML Engineer, Perception Research

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about 3 hours ago
Kirkland, WA, USA +3 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$251k - $310k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Conduct comprehensive experimentation to train and deploy multimodal LLMs and world models for 3D perception.
  • Collaborate with engineering and research teams to deploy new models and implement efficient workflows.
  • Apply techniques such as quantization, pruning, and knowledge distillation.
  • Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines for training and evaluation.
  • Design and implement evaluation frameworks for perception models.
  • Create infrastructure for large-scale model distillation and bulk-inference pipelines.
  • Experiment with model partitioning and sharding strategies.
  • Build tools for performance analysis and debugging of ML models.

Requirements

  • PhD or Masters in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar field.
  • 4+ years of industry or post-doc research experience in reinforcement learning or foundation models.
  • Proficiency in implementing scalable model training flows.
  • Experience with JAX, Flax, and potentially TensorFlow/PyTorch.
  • Hands-on experience optimizing training and inference of Transformer architectures.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period.
  • 40 hours of sick time per year.
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave and 18 weeks of baby bonding leave.
  • 13 paid holidays per year.

Tech Stack

PyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

AI & MLData Science