Senior ML Engineer – Foundation Model Research
| Company | Waymo |
|---|---|
| Location | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Salary | $204000 – $259000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- In-depth knowledge of designing and training large language models and multi-modal applications
- Experience in end-to-end product development
- Experience in training generative models and multi-task networks at scale
- Experience in large-scale distributed training and optimization
- Experience in large-scale training dataset curation
- Bachelor’s degree or above in relevant fields and 5 years of industrial experience
- Proficiency in C++ and Python
Responsibilities
- Extend and fine-tune existing large vision-language models (e.g. Gemini)
- Build datasets and train infrastructure for driving specific tasks (end-to-end driving, RL driving rationale, spatial reasoning, semantic understanding, etc)
- Leverage language to model the driving rationale and environment context
- Collaborate with other teams at Waymo to improve Waymo product
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in landing foundation models in production
- Experience in autonomous vehicles or motion planning
- Masters/PhD degree in relevant fields, e.g., computer science, machine learning, or robotics, and 3 years of industrial experience