Senior ML Engineer, Perception Research
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA
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## Senior ML Engineer, Perception Research **Waymo** is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to be the world’s most trusted driver. The **Waymo AI Foundations** team develops machine learning solutions for open problems in autonomous driving, with a focus on safely operating Waymo vehicles in dozens of cities and under all driving conditions. This role follows a **hybrid work schedule** and reports to a **Principal Research Scientist**. ### You will - Conduct comprehensive experimentation to train and deploy **state-of-the-art Multimodal LLMs and World models** for **3D Perception** using sensor information from **Camera, LiDAR, and Radar**. - Write high-quality code, **unit tests**, and documentation. - Collaborate effectively with partner and customer teams to **deploy models to production**. - Develop and maintain **scalable data pipelines** for Training & Eval across multiple data sources. - Design and implement **evaluation frameworks** for perception models. - Implement efficient **training and inference optimization** methods to maximize throughput. - Have hands-on experience with **Transformer architectures**, including training ablations. ### You have - **PhD or Master’s** in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a similar technical field, with **2+ years** of industry or post-doc research experience in **Reinforcement Learning** or **Foundation Models**. - Proficiency implementing model training flows in a **scalable, distributed, performant** manner (e.g., **data parallel**, **FSDP**, and other sharding approaches). - Willingness to work with the complexity of **globally distributed inference infrastructure**. ### We prefer - Extensive experience training and deploying **Computer Vision** models for **3D perception** tasks. - Hands-on experience training/fine-tuning **production-quality 3D multimodal models** and their encoders. - Substantial involvement in and contributions to high-impact industry AI projects. - Experience with **generative models** for domains such as world…
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