Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM EvaluationNew$58K–$62K

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

  • Work with a creative team of people who help to build the state-of-the-art: Foundation Models that are used throughout Waymo’s systems, both onboard autonomous vehicles and offboard in simulation

  • Lead the development of end-to-end evaluation systems and benchmarks for: Waymo Foundation models, encompassing the entire lifecycle from pretraining and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to reinforcement learning (RL), for evaluating the quality, safety, and realism of embodied AI agents

  • Partner within and across organizations to land disruptive and innovative tech in production

  • Implement and extend large large scale data and evaluation pipelines

  • Master’s degree or PhD degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of: study, or equivalent practical experience

  • + years of experience in ML engineering and applied Deep Learning, with a: strong portfolio of shipped products or publication record

What they're looking for

  • Experience with large scale distributed system
  • Proficient programming skills (eg: Python, C/C++)
  • Strong analytical and debugging skills
  • ML infra experience: training, evaluating and deploying ML models at scale