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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Scenes, Traffic Controls

Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

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About Waymo

Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—makes it safe and easy for people & things to get around with autonomous vehicles. Take a ride now. Backed by Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.

About the role

Driver Refinement and Validation’s (DRV) mission is to build upon the high-quality ML Driver developed by Driver Intelligence, refining its performance to improve autonomous driving in specific, complex real-world contexts and problem areas (e.g., Ride-Hailing contexts). It aims to ensure that the Waymo Driver always computes safe, compliant, comfortable, and useful plans. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, Robotics, ML, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Hands-on experience shipping ML models to production, including training, offline evaluation, and deployment (L4: 2+ yrs, L5: 4+ yrs, or a PhD plus 2+ yrs)
  • Strong data mining / data engineering: building large-scale batch pipelines (Beam/Flume/Spark or similar) and analytical SQL to find, slice, and curate data
  • Proficiency in Python with a modern DL framework (JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch) and production C++
  • Demonstrated cross-stack generalist work: has owned problems that crossed data, model, and systems/serving boundaries
  • Rigorous evaluation instincts: metric design, error analysis and slicing, and A/B or staged rollout
More about this role

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. 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.

Driver Refinement and Validation’s (DRV) mission is to build upon the high-quality ML Driver developed by Driver Intelligence, refining its performance to improve autonomous driving in specific, complex real-world contexts and problem areas (e.g., Ride-Hailing contexts). It aims to ensure that the Waymo Driver always computes safe, compliant, comfortable, and useful plans. As a Machine Learning Engineer in DRV, you will bridge the gap between cutting-edge machine learning and real-world...

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Driver Refinement + Validation (7LU)

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