The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
Develop sensor-fusion foundation models for the Waymo Driver which can run on: the car and provide a temporal-spatial understanding of the surrounding environment
Solve large-scale, multi-stage training of sensor fusion foundation models: with millions of miles of driving data under limited labeling budget partnering with Waymo infrastructure teams
Develop solutions for frequently updating the models and minimizing: time-to-impact from observing to addressing an issue
Optimize end-to-end latency from model training/update to model deployment
Drive and accelerate collaborations between Perception teams, between: Perception and AI Foundation teams, and partner with the teams working on Planning, Simulation and seek collaboration with Alphabet's research teams
Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
What they're looking for
- + years of experience in ML model development, and you have 4+ years: experience with large-scale vision, video, or multi-modal foundation model development and their integration in end-to-end models
- + years of experience in ML-driven production systems that develops models: with large-scale data, training, evaluation, and deployment
- + years of experience in a technical leadership role leading technical teams: and setting technical directions in large ML Engineering organizations
- + years of experience with computer vision models, or LLMs, or vision language models
