Waymo

ML Engineer, Foundation Model Recipes

Waymo
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29 days ago
Kirkland, WA, USA +3 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$175k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and extend research in robotics and machine learning for foundation-model recipes for embodied AI agents.
  • Partner across organizations to bring innovative technology into production.
  • Work with state-of-the-art foundation models.
  • Drive model development through data, evaluation, and systems work.
  • Implement and extend large-scale data and evaluation pipelines.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proficiency in Python.
  • Familiarity with a modern deep learning framework such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
  • Prior industrial or research experience developing recipes for machine learning models.
  • Preferred: publications in top-tier conferences or leading open-source projects in related fields.
  • Preferred: strong hands-on software engineering skills and experience designing, implementing, and extending large distributed pipelines.
  • Preferred: experience in autonomous-vehicle planning and related research.
  • Preferred: experience labeling and curating data for machine learning evaluation and training.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and company benefits program.
  • Full-time position.

Tech Stack

PythonPyTorchTensorFlow

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About Waymo

1,001-5,000 employees

Waymo develops the Waymo Driver, a full-stack autonomous driving system, and operates the Waymo One robotaxi service that offers paid, driverless rides in select U.S. cities. The company monetizes through ride-hailing fares and partnerships integrating its technology on multiple vehicle platforms. Founded in 2009 as Google’s self-driving project, Waymo is headquartered in Mountain View and is an Alphabet subsidiary, with over 10 million rider-only trips and 100+ million autonomous miles on public roads.

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