Director of Engineering – Perception Data

Director of Engineering – Perception Data

Requirements

• Track record in leading Data organizations that supported successful and large-scale products relying on ML, or
• Track record in leading a successful and large-scale quality-driven product that depends on the quality of data for its ML development
• Experience and mindset in working backwards from business goals to form the data strategies, while being extremely customer-focused – being a partner to the customer teams in shaping the best data plan for them together, and deliver
• Experience working leading horizontal programs
• Technical ability to dive deep into technical details, including complex systems, infrastructure, algorithms, and modeling techniques

Responsibilities

• Keep close track and build understanding of evolving business and technology needs on data, including those that serve Waymo’s product goals and foundation models
• Create data strategies that orchestrate the many facets involving data delivery: on-car real-time data sampling, offline data sampling, mining and sampling capabilities, data curation efficiency and quality, human labeling vs. autolabeling efficiency and quality tradeoffs, large-scale data generation systems, and storage
• Set up and evolve the working structure between multiple teams across Waymo, where we maximize reuse of infrastructure and tooling
• Responsible for ongoing delivery of diverse, fresh, and high-quality data for Perception’s development, evaluation and model training
• Develop both data technologies and data tooling to support Waymo’s increasing scale, and to support the diverse and advanced data requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading ML-heavy quality-driven products, therefore having first-hand experience as users of data for ML development
• Familiarity with the data needs of computer vision models and VLMs
• Experience in data science to systematically understand the significance of data