2 months ago
Base Salary
$213k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate petabyte-scale data systems and ML pipelines for foundation model development.
- Move foundation models from research prototypes into robust components within the Waymo Driver.
- Develop automated, high-performance infrastructure for dependable and efficient rollout of data solutions.
- Process massive datasets for training, evaluating, and deploying complex models using large-scale compute and frameworks such as Flume/Beam and JAX.
- Improve the speed, reliability, and efficiency of the end-to-end ML development lifecycle.
- Partner with AI Foundations, ML, and Platform experts to apply model innovations to Waymo’s product.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency in Python and C++.
- Experience building or maintaining large-scale data pipelines or ML infrastructure, such as Flume, Spark, Borg, or Kubeflow.
- Strong hands-on software engineering skills and the ability to develop large, complex shared codebases.
- Preferred: experience designing and building distributed systems or MLOps platforms, including model versioning, experiment tracking, or CI/CD for ML.
- Preferred: familiarity with a modern deep learning framework such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
- Preferred: experience in autonomous vehicle planning and related research.
- Preferred: experience developing methodologies for data-centric improvement of ML models in an industrial or research setting.
- Preferred: prior data curation and multimodal experience.
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 during the first five years.
- Sick time of 40 hours per year where applicable, with 5 discretionary days per event.
- 28–30 weeks of maternity leave.
- 18 weeks of baby bonding leave.
- 13 paid holidays per year.
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Eligible employees may participate in a discretionary annual bonus program and equity incentive plan.
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About Waymo
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